'Train' search engines to understand abbreviations

[curious]

Off the wall question:I often search the etymology of a word and I would like to use 'ety' instead of typing out the whole word.

Is this possible?

Thank you

[Jay Freedman]

I'd recommend getting AutoHotKey. Among its many talents, the simplest one is an "autocorrect" function that operates everywhere in Windows. For this example, you would include the following in a text file with an .ahk extension:

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::ety::
(
etymology
)

Either store the file in %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, or store it elsewhere and put a shortcut to the file in the Startup folder.

Any time you type ety and the spacebar, it will be replaced with etymology.

[HansV]

I was going to mention AutoHotKey too. Alternatively, here some text expansion utilities:

PhraseExpress (free for personal use)
AutoText (commercial)

[curious]

Thank you both for your recommendations and QUICK response!

[curious]

Gentlemen - I again thank you for your responses. However, I see I didn't make my question clear enough. I want to have an autotext-type feature for Google, Yahoo, etc. Is this available? Thank you

[HansV]

The utilities that have been mentioned, will work in any application, including Google, Yahoo etc.