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Handy searches that can be performed in the addressbar

Acronym Finder Quick Search: Type "acronym <acronym>" to look up what an acronym stands for in Acronym Finder. For example, "acronym WTF."
Allmusic.com artist search: Type "alm <artist>" to look up an artist on Allmusic.com
Amazon Quick Search: Type "amaz <product name>" to look up an item on Amazon.
Amazon UK Quick Search: Type "amazuk <product name>" to look up an item on Amazon UK.
Dictionary.com Quicksearch: Type "dic <word>" in the addressbar to perform a dictionary look-up.
Answers.com Quicksearch: Type "ans <word>" in the addressbar to perform an answers.com look-up.
Ebay Quick Search: Type "ebay <item>" to find something up for auction at Ebay.
Flickr Quick Search: Type "flic <search term>" to search all the tags, titles and descriptions of images at photo-sharing site Flickr.
Froogle Quick Search: Type "froogle <product name>" to look up a product on shopping search engine Froogle.
Google Maps Quick Search: Type "gmap <address>" to get a Google map of a street address or location.
Google Image Quick Search: Type "gimg <search term>" to find images that match using Google Image Search.
I'm Feeling Lucky Quicksearch: Type "goto <term>" in the addressbar to visit Google's top listing for that term
Lifehacker Google Search: Type "lh <search term>" to search Lifehacker for information.
Technorati Quick Search: Type "technorati <search term>" to see what weblogs are posting about a topic.
Thesaurus Quick Search: Type "thes <word>" to find words with similar meanings in a thesaurus.
Urban Dictionary Quick Search: Type "ud <expression>" to look up a slang expression in Urban Dictionary.
Wikipedia Quick Search: Type "wik <person|place|thing>" to look it up in collaboratively-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Yahoo! Creative Commons Quick Search: Type "cc <word>" to find Creative Commons-licensed items available for reuse with Yahoo!'s CC search.