Google Chrome has a nice little feature that allows using a website’s own search through Chrome’s address bar directly.

For example, a query like “railscasts.com openid” will automatically goto railscasts.com and perform a search on that site itself.

The search is being performed in the site itself, and the local search box is populated with the query that was typed in Chrome’s address bar.

Google is parsing the search forms from various sites and providing direct access to those through the address bar. I’ve seen this work for all sites that do contain a identifiable search box, but not on sites that do not have any search capabilities.

Long live Chrome!