The following is from page 41 of the manual which includes a screenshot of what the trigger definition should look like (the example uses a Wikipedia search but it works for a google search too).
http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf
Some actions take an argument in the third pane and triggers can use these too. The Search For… action will search some web site for the text entered as an argument. See the Web Searches section for the details of using this action. A trigger for a commonly used web search, such as Wikipedia, is very useful. If you specified the argument in the trigger it would search for the same text each time it’s run. However, if you leave the third pane blank, then when the trigger is run, Quicksilver will open a command window with the first two panes filled in (in this case with Wikipedia Quicksearch and Search For…), and the third pane selected, ready for you to type the query. Quicksilver is also smart enough to realize that the Search For... action wants a text argument and puts the third pane in text mode for you. It even fills in the default text from the OSX Shared Find Clipboard (which you can set in many Cocoa applications with ⇧⌘E). Note, if the third pane isn’t empty when you create the trigger and you want it to be, you can type ⌘X to cut out whatever is there.
It goes on to describe using proxy objects to allow you to do a search on highlighted text in any app.
Howard On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Ian wrote:
I use Quicksilver to search the web a lot, and I'm trying to skip a few steps. I understood that you can assign a hotkey that will do the first two steps in an argument so that you just have to do the final one. For e.g.: I'd like Command-Shift-G to bring up Quicksilver with the final step of a "Google Search" + "Search For" (Text) argument so that all I have to do is type Cmd-Shift-G and the Quicksilver text box pops up and I can type my search and be whisked away to google. When I go to assign the custom trigger in the preferences, though, what happens when I press the hotkeys is it launches safari and gives me to the google homepage. While this is kind of convenient, it's not really what I have in mind. Any solutions? I'm running B54 on the most current version of Leopard. (PS. Another related annoying problem. When I go to program hotkeys Quicksilver never actually shows me what the hotkey combo is in the Edit pane. For example, if I want the hotkey to be Cmd-Shift-G the only thing I see is Cmd-Shift . . . no G. Not a huge deal, but as I add more hotkeys it'd be nice to have them visible so I can remember what's assigned to what . . . )
