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Google Quick Search Box

— google.com — Help It's free and awesome Install Google QSB Requires Max OS X 10.5 Leopard+ Search for anything... from contacts & music to web content. Launch applications whether they're on your computer or online. Perform actions on your results such as opening ... (more) Google Quick Search Box

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Introducing Google Quick Search Box

— googlemac.blogspot.com — When most people think of Google, search comes to mind – and rightly so! Hundreds of millions... of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet. About 2 years ago, we introduced Google Desktop to extend ... (more) Introducing Google Quick Search Box

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How do I tweet from the Quick Search Box? - Google Quick Search Box Help

— google.com — To tweet using Google Quick Search Box, you'll first need to associate your Twitter account with the... Quick Search Box: Click the down arrow on the right-hand side of the search box. Select Preferences . Click the Add Accounts tab. Click Add . Select ... (more) How do I tweet from the Quick Search Box? - Google Quick ...

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Google Quick Search Box Officially Released
TheAppleBlog — ... The similarity between the two apps is far from coincidental. One of QSB’s developers is none other than Nicholas Jitkoff, the man responsible for Quicksilver, which is now open-source since his move to the Google team. QSB is a natural extension of Jitkoff’s work with Quicksilver, according to comments he made to Ars Technica when the QSB developer preview was originally launched in January of this year: ...

Plugins add grunt to Google’s Quick Search Box
MacBytes.com — ... [image] , was hired by Google to develop something similar for the company and its ever-expanding suite of apps. ( Ars Technica [image] carries the full story.) The result is a sleek little app called “Google Quick Search Box”. It has nothing like the power and range of Quicksilver, but it does provide a way to launch applications quickly and to perform a few other time-saving tricks: As the name suggests, QSB is focussed on finding things. It doesn’t have the flexibility that Quicksilver enjoys, but it is good at searching. Of course, as one might expect, it excels at ...