Quicksilver + YubNub: one search to rule them all

Sure, I could just type a Google search (or other search) into the search bar in Firefox... but to do that I'd have to position the cursor in the search field, click, then type. With this, it looks like I can just tap the QS hotkeys & start searching. For me, that's easier. Maybe for others, moving the mouse & clicking would be easier...

This is great! I've been toying with the idea of using Shiira to test it out, but I constantly do searches in Safari with "g " in the address bar. Now I don't have to.

Rock on.

--rebby

The browser plug-ins are great. But the great thing is about the Quicksilver + Yubnub combo is you don't have to first be in a browser to initiate the search. You could be anywhere in the system and call up the window.

The url link for your bookmark is qss-http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=***

To throw my hat into the "my favorite app already does this" ring, OmniWeb has had this ability for as long as I can remember. I type "goo tuaw" and it'll pull up stuff about tuaw, or "goof tuaw" and it'll go directly to tuaw.

The yubnub functionality has been in launchbar for a couple of years now. For some reason Launchbar does not get the recognition on this side of the pond.

You can do this already without yubnub.
I already type sg for search Google, si for search Google images etc. Just set up web searches from the web search plugin, or manually from here http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/web_search_list

While it hasnt been implemented yet in 2.0 betas, shiira's 1.2.3 does the same wonderfully. Endless abilities....weather, academic journals, google scholar, images... all just in the location bar.

There's also the Sogudi-Plugin, which does the same, albeit locally (if you have the Sogudi Safari plugin installed).

-> http://pimpmysafari.com/plugins/sogudi