: Making a site searchable via Chrome search bar I use Google Chrome. When I want to search Wikipedia, I type www.wikipedia.org into the search bar and then press tab. The screen looks like this:

@Shelley277

Ironically the answer is on this page and every other Stack Exchange site :)

You have to define an OpenSearchDescription for your site. If you look at the source code of this page you will see in the header:

<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Pro Webmasters - Stack Exchange" href="/opensearch.xml">


And if you open opensearch.xml referenced here you see:

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:moz="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
<ShortName>Webmasters</ShortName>
<Description>Search Webmasters: Q&A for pro webmasters</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width="16" height="16" type="image/x-icon">http://sstatic.net/webmasters/img/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/search?q={searchTerms}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>


You have to implement the same for your site. The key is that you do need some kind of search implemented on you site which is used by the broswer to perform the actual search. This is specified in the template part of the XML:
webmasters.stackexchange.com/search?q={searchTerms}

Google Custom Search can be used for this purpose if you have no current search on your site.

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