Search the web more easily with commands(PowerToys Run)

[rosnerdev]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I have a Mac on which I use Alfred all of the time.

Alfred has a really cool feature: when inputting text, the program checks for all relevant results and if it doesn't come up with any results - it gives you suggestions on where to look it up such as: Google, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc.(Alfred has a large list of websites it supports)

Additionally, Alfred allows you to look stuff up by using a prefix command such as "google" or "amazon" before the search input and it also allows you to add websites and change the premade commands that come with it.

I believe you can implement the same thing similarly in PowerToys Run with the following features:

• Built-in commands for widely used and well-adopted websites such as: Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, and more...
• Be able to change the built-in commands(ex: from "google" to "gg")
• Custom commands by adding the url along with the query parameter position(additional features might be: PNG/SVG file for display image and the "official" command name[ex: command is "yt" but the name is "YouTube"])

Scenario when this would be used?

This feature can really boost my productivty because instead of going directly to the URL of the site, you can just look it up with a simple command.

Here's a scenario where this might be useful: My default search engine is DuckDuckGo(for privacy reasons and such), but in a lot of cases it doesn't satisfy my needs as Google's search engine is more advanced and gets me more relevant results in most cases.

Instead of looking up "google.com" and then searching for what I need everytime I want to use Google - I can just use the command provided with PowerToys Run such as "gg" or "google".

I think this feature can really boost and help with many people's productivity and save A LOT of time!

Supporting information

No response

[crutkas]

currently we have no direct plans. This would be enabled via community plugins. /dup #3200

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