Google Experimental Search - Keyboard shortcuts

[Steven Edwards]

For those who prefer the keyboard to the mouse, join "Keyboard shortcuts" on Google's Experimental Search (http://www.google.com/experimental/) page.

After a week or two of use, the keyboard shortcuts are very useful.

After searching, the results page comes up (usually without ads) and you can press the J key to scoll down through the results, K to go back up, O to go to the currently selected site, and / to return to the search box.

Holding down J and scanning the results is much quicker for me than either tabbing through results or scrolling through with the down arrow. Moving back up to return to an earlier result is also much easier with K than hitting Shift+Tab.

I give it 4 thumbs up. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Patonb]

Man... you scroll with the arrow keys?

Wow... Space bar and pg keys work just like the J.

[Steven Edwards]

I hate the sound of repeatedly pressing the spacebar. I used to start off with the down arrow for the first few results, then page down if I had to scroll for a bit. (My repeat delay is small.)

The J and Page Down keys work differently.