You can Add Google Plus Search for Profiles and Posts to Chrome Now!

Everybody is tired of waiting for Google to come up functional search feature for its newly released Google plus! Like everyone, so are we. In order speed up the process a little googling came in handy and we found a way to addresses this issue. No, it’s not a browser extension. (There is one of those, of course, but it’s filled with ads.)

Instead, the following method (below) allows you to add a custom search engine feature to your browser. It takes a few minutes to add it to both Google Plus Profile search and Google Plus Posts search to Chrome.

Google Plus Search Poor on Functionality

Google Plus, now approaching 18 million users, according to the in process independent analysis by Paul Allen, is gaining massive popularity, despite not even being a month old yet. Yes, there are still many things that need smoothed out in Google Plus, none of them are in as immediate need or are as observable as the search box.

In Google Plus, search capabilities are very limited you can only search by people, and only by name. You can’t search by keyword in their bios, by company name or anything else. To make matters worse, you are not allowed to search the texts of Google Plus posts!

Except now you can.

How to Add Google Plus Custom Search Engines in Chrome

If Goggle chrome browser is open in front of you right now, you can explore into the settings and add the custom search engines to the browser. In this particular case, we added two search engines: one for searching profiles and the other for searching posts.

Here’s how:

1 Click the “Wrench” menu in Chrome.

2. Click “Preferences”

3. In the “Basics” section, click “Manage Search Engines” in the “Search” section.In the first box (“Add a new search engine”), type whatever you want. I used “Google+.”

In the second box (“Keyword”), type that specific word that you will use to call the search engine from the URL bar. In short keep it simple. I would recommend choosing “profiles” for the profile search engine and “posts” for the posts search engine.

In the last box (“URL with % in place of query”) use the following:

For the Profile search engine: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&tbs=prfl:e

For the Posts search engine: {google:baseURL}search?q=site:plus.google.com inurl:posts/* %s

To save these changes made to the engine, just hit “Enter” (Return) on your keyboard.

This will allow you to search Google+ from Chrome’s address bar. In order for to do this, just type in the engine name you want (e.g. posts or profiles) and hit the spacebar. That will enable the engine for use. You can then type in your query and press enter as you would normally when searching Google.

The much awaited, Google Plus search!

Stating the obvious so we don’t miss out anything, you don’t need to save these queries as custom search engines in order to use them – it just makes things a lot easier.

We can’t take credit for this tip. That goes to recruiter.com, which had posted the original instructions we found when Googling today. Thank you!

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Tags: Google +, google plus, Google Plus Post Search, Google Profile Search, Social Network

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