How do I teach Chrome's omnibar to search in Google Maps?

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It seems that the only site on the web that is unavailable for search via Chrome's omnibar is Google's own Maps. Is there any way I could teach the omnibar to search Google Maps?

I was searching for the general case of how to add a search provider. I didn't find this until figuring it out on my own and searching for the now known keywords (`add search manage engine chrome tab`). My original search (`add search provider chrome`), was no help. Would you and @Sathya mind generalizing this QA? — Louis Waweru, Jun 18 '15 at 05:47

score 34 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 10 '14 at 16:54

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You'll have to add a custom search engine. Click on Chrome Menu → Options → Basics → Manage Search Engines. Under Add other search engine, add the following:

Name: Google Maps
keyword: maps.google.com
URL: https://www.google.com/maps/search/%s

Now, type maps (and hit tab) followed by the keyword will search for the keyword in Google Maps.

1: Screenshot of entered search engine

edited Dec 10 '14 at 16:54

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answered Jan 05 '12 at 14:26

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A small comment on this one: setting keyword to "maps.google.com" is more like the original automatic omnibar behaviour. Thanks! – Nikolai Prokoschenko Jan 05 '12 at 15:00
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Any idea why Chrome can't just autodetect this one, like it does with all other search pages? – Thomas Ahle Nov 04 '14 at 16:30
Thomas, Unless I'm mistaken the problem is that Google Maps doesn't support OpenSearch. – geppy Dec 10 '14 at 16:36
Is there any way this could be parameterized to enable searching github issues for any repo from the omnibar? – Kiara Grouwstra Jan 22 '17 at 04:49
See my answer--just removing the old entry may be preferable, if applicable – mpowered Sep 14 '18 at 23:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '18 at 23:29

In my case, this was because there was a custom search engine from ages ago.

Go to custom search engines (Chrome Menu → Settings → Search Engine → Manage Search Engines)
Scroll to or find maps.google.com in the (inner) search box
Click the more button on the far right
Click "Remove from list"

Next time I searched on Google Maps, everything started working as expected.

How do I teach Chrome's omnibar to search in Google Maps?

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