Replacing DNS

December 17th, 2010

Kyle Meyer:

By changing the way Chrome treats your search queries in the address bar, you can type something such as ‘little snapper’—which you may expect to be at littlesnapper.com, but it’s not, it’s actually located at http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper —and Google will magically find the correct url and take you directly to that page, no search result screen required.

The biggest implication of which is that I can stop thinking in domains and start thinking in descriptive terms. Google is the home page of a great many people, but removing this layer of searching and burrowing through results creates a much more fluid experience. You can still type a domain if you know it, but when you don’t, the internet does its magic.

He has the instructions for how to set up Google Chrome to do this, and it is neat. I may switch back to Chrome for this alone.