knogs

keyboard navigation on google search™

What is knogs?

"knogs" is a Chrome extension that allows you to navigate Google Search results using keyboard shortcuts, enabling mouse-free access. It provides shortcuts for opening links in new tabs or windows, selecting the search box, and more.

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Extension stats

By: https://blog.nqzero.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 9 ▼ -2

Rating: 4.00 (4)

Version: 1.1.0 (Last updated: 2015-08-07)

Creation date: 2015-08-06

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 11.14K

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 122723 ▼ 5070

Other rankings

#16981 in Tools ▼ 655 #92 in trademark keyword 14 ▲ 7 #232 in search box keyword 16 ▲ 2 #277 in free access keyword 71 ▲ 12 #283 in mouse keyword 40 ▲ 7

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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use google search without the mouse keyboard shortcuts for use with google search

j/k navigate google search results o to open the selected link in a new tab enter to open the selected link in the current tab shift+o or shift+enter to open the page in a new window / selects the search box esc unselects the search box

note: set up your own search engine keyword for google for total mouse-free access chrome://chrome/settings/searchEngines

my normal search sequence is as follows ctrl-L g space stuff j j j o

User reviews

Doesn't seem to work anymore. Installing and using google.ca or google.com/ncr doesn't allow j and k to be used to navigate (instead it jumps to the search bar). The k icon stays greyed out. I assume the last google javascript update broke this extension. Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit) on Linux

David, 2016-09-05

Thank goodness. I have been wanting this for a long time. Just installed it and loving it. In your blog post you mention turning off Google Instant Search. I feel like that information should be added to the Details here. I wish Google would implement first-class keyboard shortcuts for Search like with their other services. Thanks.