You can do it from search bar. You just need to know keywords assigned to search engine you need. To know the keyword, right click on search bar and select Edit Search Engines...
from menu. Look for the keyword columns of available search engines.
![enter image description here](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.sstatic.net/nxQxc.jpg)
Now, if you need to change search engine on the fly, just type keyword and press TAB
key. You will see the change in search engine. Now, you can type your search string.
For example, in my case I types bing
and pressed TAB
key.
![enter image description here](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.sstatic.net/SKSjl.jpg)
Update:
Based on comments, i came up with one beautiful solution :D
Here are steps:
- Install
AutoHotKey
(This is free).
- Create following script. In my case this script is for
bing
. More such scripts can be added.
![enter image description here](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.sstatic.net/S5SH5.jpg)
- Save the script with
.ahk
extension. Double click on it to run it with AutoHotKey
- Open
Chrome
browser, click on search bar and press CTRL
+ ALT
+ B
. This will send BING + TAB
key to chrome
and search engine will change to bing
.
In AutoHotKey
^
is CTRL
, !
is ALT
. So, ^!b
means when you press CTRL + ALT + B
key combination, AutoHotKey
will send keys BING + TAB
to chrome or any window in focus. Here bing
is keyword
of search engine.