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Google Launches Quick Search Box For Macs
WebProNews Feed —
... Google says the open-source quick search box for Macs is still in the experimental stage. "This Mac version is much more experimental than its iPhone sibling, Google Mobile App, and through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come."Google is asking users to participate in its experiment and visit the Google Code site. "We are eager to involve users in the development process and will be posting new builds frequently. Over the ...
Google Intros New Quick Search Box for Mac
TheAppleBlog —
... I headed over to the Google Code site for the project and got my hands on the disk image available there so that I could take the search box for a test drive. The app is a light 8.4 MB installed, so my worries that it would be a secret resource hog like Google Desktop seem to be unfounded. ...
Quicksilver Is (Sort Of) Dead! Long Live Google Quick Search Box!
Cult of Mac —
... Google’s new Quick Search Box for Mac was coded in part by Alcor, aka Nicholas Jitkoff, aka the guy who created Quicksilver and made keyboard-centric launchers the big hit they are today (on pretty much every platform, not just OS X). ...
A Quicker Search of Almost Everything
O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhone —
... and which actions it offers. Simply listing how many search interfaces and/or actions a plug-in adds (as shown on the Debug prefs pane in the current version) simply is not enough. Despite all these things that QSB does not offer just yet, it has already replaced Quicksilver as my primary search UI, and I can't wait to see what the developers will come up with next. What QSB's future holds: install it, try it, contribute to it To get started with the Google Quick Search Box, visit its project page on Google Code. In the related wiki, you can get information about ...
Twittering Without a Client App
TheAppleBlog —
... or Google’s Quick Search Box (Quicksilver’s new sibling), will allow you to post tweets easily without a client app front and center. With either, you can quickly invoke the input window, type your 140 characters, and send it off to Twitter — and like that, the interface vanishes until you need it again. Using Quicksilver requires that you ...
Search the Web without a browser
Macworld —
... (payment requested) is similar (though with fewer search options), but instead of putting the search field directly in the menu bar, it requires that you click on a menu-bar icon to display a pop-up field. The free Google Quick Search Box for the Mac —still considered “experimental,” because it’s only a demonstration of a work in progress—also displays a pop-up search box when you press a keyboard shortcut. The Google Quick Search Box can search not only Google sites (including YouTube and Google Docs), but also Wikipedia.com and even programs, files, Address Book contacts, ...
Plugins add grunt to Googles Quick Search Box
MacBytes.com —
... Quicksilver. For example, using Martin’s Services plugin, you can find a document, “tab” into it and type the first few letters of a Service to apply it to that object. Here I am quickly emailing a text document to a student using the plugin: Google’s Quick Search Box is freeware and Leopard-only. Like all software that is still in development, and especially one that works together with third-party plugins, you will come across an occasional glitch. The latest builds are available from its project page [image] on code.google.com. There is also ...
Use GlimmerBlocker keywords in Google Quick Search Box
MacOSXHints.com —
... However, for me, quick web searches like this usually start from the Google Quick Search Box. This hint allows all GlimmerBlocker keyword expansions to be initiated from the Google Quick Search Box, by writing two rules in GlimmerBlocker. ...
