I really like the Firefox toolbar search box, but I hate how it essentially ties you to a single search engine. Sure, you can get plugins for just about every site out there that's searchable, but to switch engines, you have to use the mouse, click a couple of times, and then bring your hand back to the keyboard to type in your query. That's way too much work.
So, I created my dream search box plugin. Basically, you can prepend queries with prefixes to specify which site/service you want to search. For example, if you prefix your query with "amazon:" it'll send the query to Amazon, use "ebay:" and it goes to eBay, and so on and so forth for a dozen or so supported sites. You can also set your own prefixes, so I can just type "d:" to search Dictionary.com or "p:" to search PHP function docs. Of course, you can search without specifying a prefix, and it'll go to your default search engine (it's Yahoo by default, but you can set it to whatever you want). To top it all off, you can add your own search query if it's not supported by default, by sending a simple query.
Read about it and download it here.
Posted Mon, March 20, 2006 01:27 by 11nong@60.163.16.94
very good!
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