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Originally posted by Jeremy Howard
Make the target of your 'g' shortcut "http://www.google.com/search?q=%s". The '%s' gets substituted with whatever you type after the shortcut. So then type in the location bar 'g fastmail' to search for 'fastmail'. Neat huh? 
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IE can actually do this too, if you install the power toys.
For ages I've had three set up for Google:
gg - search Google normal
ggg - search Google groups
ggc - lookup the URL in the cache
The 'ggc' option is really good because if you get a 404 or server not found error you just need to whack 'ggc' in front of the URL and try again!
I recently added:
ggt - translate the page (seems to use automatic language detection)
You could also add ggs - to restrict the search to a particular site.
The actual urls to use (with the %s) are pretty easy to guess, (and I'd list them if I was at home...).
Phil.
P.S. Who said the command line was dead? :-)