Using Chrome omnibox for quick translation

Question

I just recently realized there's quick commands for the Omnibox, I'm wondering if theres any commands for Google translate. Say I want to translate from Chinese to Swedish, is it possible to write something similar to 你好 --from chinese --to swedish ?

Answer 1

I was wondering the same question.

Here you have the answer:

The address bar of Google supports the OpenSearch standard. Therefore it can be taught all sorts of new engines like Google Translator or Wikipedia. The below steps shows you how to add a shortcut to use google translator to translate from English to French right from the address bar :

• Right-click in the address bar.
• Select Edit search engines
• Click on Add
• In the Name field, enter “Google Translation”
• In the Keyword field, enter “t”
• In the URL field, enter “http://translate.google.com/#auto|auto|%s”
• Hit Enter and Close this window .
• In the address bar, enter t + an space + the text to translate

E.g: t good morning everybody

That's all. Now you have automatic translation in the omnibox using a single letter.