I’ve been messing around with searching using Quicksilver, and man am I amazed. Any site you can search (google, yahoo, newzbin, etc…) you can setup a quick search using Quicksilver and your default browser. My default browser is Firefox and the search I’ll show you is for my site since google is already searchable by default with Quicksilver.
First off, make sure you have the Web Search Module plugin installed. This is what allows you to do these quick easy searches.
Next, go to your browser and navigate to a search engine or the site you would like to search. I’m going to PHATO Productions Blog (hey, thats mine).
Now do a search in the search field and submit that search.
Notice the url after you submit the search. Your gonna want to copy that url.
Now create a bookmark. In my case the bookmark url is going to be http://www.phatoproductions.com/blog/index.php?s=mac&sbutt=Go. I’m not going to keep the whole url though, I’m going to replace the search query (mac) with three stars (***). When we use Quicksilver the 3 stars will allow us to put our search query in there.
After you have created your bookmark, goto Quicksilver preferences and refresh your bookmarks for your default browser, just in case Quicksilver hasn’t done that yet.
Now invoke Quicksilver and type in the name of your bookmark.
Tab over twice and type in a search and then hit enter.
The search should open up your browser with the site you are searching with the search query, notice the url.
Thats it. Quick, easy, simple… And now your searches will be the same way once you have them all setup. I hope this helps you out, and if it is redundant, I’m sorry, but this tip would have helped me yesterday, hehe.
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