If you take pride in the number of times a day you avoid reaching for the mouse on account of your superhuman shortcut skills, get excited: now there are keyboard shortcut commands for Google search!

Scroll all the way to the bottom of a search results page and you’ll see a link labeled “Try Google Experimental.”  Google gives you the opportunity to participate in a number of interface BETA tests, including two keyboard shortcut experiments.

Experiment 1: Keyboard shortcuts.  Join this experiment and turn your keyboard into a Google search navigation control panel.

• J Selects the next result.
• K Selects the previous result.
• O Opens the selected result.
• ENTER Opens the selected result.
• / Puts the cursor in the search box.
• ESC Removes the cursor from the search box.

Experiment 2: Accessible view.  This experiment gives you an extended set of keyboard controls, including the ability to magnify the selected result.

• j or DOWN Selects the next item.
• k or UP Selects the previous item.
• l or RIGHT Moves to the next category (results, sponsored links, refinements).
• h or LEFT Moves to the previous category (results, sponsored links, refinements).
• ENTER Opens the selected result.
• / Puts the cursor in the search box.
• n Moves to the next result, and fetches more results if necessary.
• p Moves to the previous result, reloading earlier results if necessary.
• = Magnifies current item
• - Shrinks current item
• A Switches to Accessible Search Results
• W Switches to regular Web Search Results

Try these for yourself at http://www.google.com/experimental.

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