Noob hack: How to do inline google searches

Software & Operating Systems Windows
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This is important for including google search results into scripts, or if you just want to show how cool you are infront of other people. It's essentially a "hack". A really basic one... that takes memorization.

win + R = Run

iexplore google.com/webhp?gws_rd-ssl#q=tek+syndicate

so you can replace iexplore with chrome or whatever web browser you use.

webhp? = web hitpoints? ( I don't know what hp? means but I remember it has hitpoints)
gws = google web services

rd = road (I don't know what it is, but this is how I remember it)
-ssl = secure socket layer

q= basically question

the next is your search criteria which the spaces are +.

so after typing this about 100 times it gets easy to search inline. If you do this all the time, you don't even have to think about it.

chrome google.com/webhp?gws_rd-ssl#q=google+search+results

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I would suggest you to not use iexplorer, but firefox instead.

If you don't have it on your system, please do not feel insecure and use iexplorer, do instead:

use
* ftp
* telnet,
* or powershell:

$client = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$client.Credentials = Get-Credential
$client.DownloadFile("https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win&lang=en-US", "C:\tmp\FirefoxSetup.exe")

(line #2 only needed if credentials are not sufficient)

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I concur, I just am not running on a windows machine right now and wasn't sure if the run command for firefox was simply 'firefox'. This is just such a stupid basic non conventional way with interacting with systems (hack). So I thought I'd post it, because sometimes you don't have a mouse, and you want a quick and easy way to do a google search.