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Which is better?

There seem to be two standards for highlighting the search bar on a website, CTRL + K and /. I invite discussion in the comments. I will almost certainly bet in this market, because I have an opinion on this. My opinion is at the bottom of this description.

Examples of CTRL + K

Discord

Fresh Framework

Examples of /

Github

Speedrun.com

My opinion:

I like / better as a hotkey to highlight the searchbar.
Here's my reasoning: CTRL + K is reserved for adding a URL to highlighted text. Go into google docs, sheets, word, excel, powerpoint, etc. and if you highlight some text and hit CTRL + K it presents an "add URL" option. Now imagine a text editor inside of a website that has a searchbar. Let's assume that the searchbar uses the CTRL + K hotkey. In this imaginary example, users can't use the normal CTRL + K hotkey for adding a URL to highlighted text inside the text editor because it will change the focus to the searchbar. I also think that / is faster because I only have to hit one key instead of two. The faster option should be allocated to the thing that is more common, and I think that highlighting a searchbar is generally a more common action that adding a URL to highlighted text in a text editor.

I find it a bit strange that this hasn't really been standardized. I like to think that I am open to being convinced that I'm wrong, but I have a human brain which can be notoriously stubborn XD

So, what do you think? CTRL + K or /