Google Chrome Omnibox Search extension that enables you to search the web using Amazon from the Omnibox.  While still experimental at Amazon and powered by Google; if Amazon turns its computing might towards web search – we’re all in for great results. To be fair, Amazon’s web search experiment is named Amazon Smart Search (which is easily confused with its commercial endeavors) (besides, how would ‘___ query term here’ look to you every day while using it?) – not Amazon Web Search (which is used in the extension). Also, I feel its fair to mention that there’s almost twice as many paid results (ads) on these result pages.

To use, simply type ‘aws’, a space, and your search query into the Omnibox and it will open your search results up in a new tab.

manifest.json

{
	"name" : "Amazon Web Search",
	"short_name": "aws Search",
	"description" : "To use, type 'aws' & space, and a query term into the Omnibox. timothytocci.com",
	"version" : "0.1",
	"background" : {
		"scripts" : ["background.js"]
	},
	"omnibox" : {
		"keyword" : "aws"
	},
	"icons" : {
		"16" : "aweb_16.png",
		"32" : "aweb_32.png",
		"48" : "aweb_48.png",
		"128" : "aweb_128.png"
	},
	"manifest_version" : 2
}

background.js

chrome.omnibox.onInputEntered.addListener(function (text) {
	var createProperties = {
		url : "http://www.amazon.com/gp/bit/apps/web/SERP/search?&query="
		 + encodeURIComponent(text)
	};
	chrome.tabs.create(createProperties);
});
chrome.omnibox.onInputStarted
.addListener(function () {
	var suggestion = {
		description : "Search using Amazon Web Search for the query: %s "
	}
	chrome.omnibox.setDefaultSuggestion(suggestion);
});

Install Amazon Web Search Extension (source zip)

File: aws.zip
CRC-32: 242f84bc
MD4: 7fffda73151dbf33aba8c5fae00a3ee8
MD5: 8f575adb94b0cfb32ac8094d78dafa03
SHA-1: 874a58947df97fdd3da00583e6b11ed941de0c81