I think you'll want to look at this, particularly the Web Search section, 
http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf

Howard

On Aug 24, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Carmant wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently switched to OSX from Windows. Quicksilver is one of
> the apps that I always read about when I had Windows that made me wish
> I was on OSX. As a substitute i used Launchy.
> 
> However, Quicksilver seems to have a far steeper learning curve. The
> thing I loved about Launchy was the ability to quickly search the
> internet using the Weby plugin. It allowed me to do the following:
> 
> Press Alt + Spacebar to invoke Launchy, specify the site to search,
> press tab, specify the search query. I also had popular sites assigned
> to just their initial letter to speed things up.
> 
> For example, to search the word "test" in Google, I would do the
> following:
> 
> Alt+Space (to invoke Launchy), "g" TAB "test" ENTER.
> 
> I could perform this anywhere in windows and it would open a tab
> showing the results in Firefox.
> 
> I could also search sites like Wikipedia and YouTube by substituting
> the "g" for a "w" or "y".
> 
> 
> How can I replicate this in Quicksilver, because I am really missing
> it!
> 
> Thanks

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