Google Buddy brings searching to the menu bar

I second "Where's the Google Search for Spotlight" comment - at least for Leopard. There WAS one for Tiger, but it broke for Leopard and is no longer supported. Any replacements? I want to integrate google searches into spotlight now that i've ditched Quicksilver (i know i know - but I'm trying to get rid of unnecessary wares and i only used qs as an applauncher - something spotlight is good for).

Off topic - anyone else notice that spotlight is slow (misses key strokes etc) the first time you use it but after that its fine?

There are that many people who don't have a browser running? They all have that box in the top right corner, and it's more flexible, at least in Firefox, where you can set it for any of hundreds of sites and pick from a list of selected ones with 2 mouse clicks (I use the Amazon, Wikipedia, and Pricegrabber searches all the time). (I don't know if Safari supports this--I use it as my secondary browser)

So, now we get TWO search icons in the menubar? Nice.

There must be a google plugin for Spotlight somewhere on the net...

While I'm pleased to see a useful article that doesn't deal with the iPhone (not all of us bought one!), is there a reason why we so often get these advertisements for pay software that is inferior to free software?

I'm more than willing to support good developers, but only if they do more for me than the ones who don't ask $10 for a pretty small function...

I would recommend Waffle Software's Monocle.
http://wafflesoftware.net/monocle/
It does pretty much what this app does, but it's free, and you can easily expand it to work with almost any search engine.

Save some dough, and stick w/ QuickSilver.

Life is good with QS + YubNub.

http://www.lifeclever.com/quicksilver-yubnub-rapid-web-searches-and-more/

Why does this program cost money? Do they not have it set up to receive money from Google whenever someone executes a search. Seems to me they could use that model to make money and offer the product for free.

Ok so you said it allows you do make different kinds of searches, but please tell us HOW you do them. e.g. shortcut key, choose from menu item.

Then we can decide if it is an improvement over Quicksilver or Inquisitor.

I've used Butler (http://www.many-tricks.com/butler/) for a couple of years now. In addition to many other features it can insert a little Google search window in your menu bar that lets you search images, groups, dictionaries and many more. Totally customizable. Leopard compatible, so far. Add other search engines such as Yahoo, Hotbot, etc. While it doesn't offer Google Buddy's "advanced features" it seems to offer about everything else - and it's FREE!

The thing about this? I can replicate the exact same thing with Quicksilver and a few bookmarked searches. Right click on a search box, save search as with a keyword like g for google, gi for google image, etc. Then you've got all the power of Google at the convenience of QS. And then all you have to do is manually use the advanced features.