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I find it better since it's much quicker to choose a search engine. If there were a way to choose the engine with the keyboard I'd be all for it.
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Ctrl-K takes you to the search box at top right. Then Ctrl-[up arrow] or [dn arrow] lets you cycle through the available search engines. Defaults are google, amazon, ebay, yahoo, and a few others. To add more choices, try
this.