You're exactly right. Not only is shortmarks a good keyword search utility, but it also adds nice keyword search synchronization between different installs of Chrome on different machines.
... And as far as not depending upon a web service, if I'm going to do a web search, I can assume that I have an Internet connection. Of course, I'm still dependent upon the web service being up, which is another story sometimes, but Shortmarks seems to be very reliable. I like the approach of sucking down Shortmark marks, because it'd be slightly faster, but to be honest, Shortmarks is quick, and the effort is probably not worth the reward. You're still going to have to hit the web, and the latency there is minimal whether I hit 1 web service or 2 in series. Using Rob's tip to me to get things working with triggers, it's really just doing a simple Shift-Cmd-L and then typing "s foo" and I get very fast results. Thanks again! -Mike On Sep 23, 5:18 am, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Derek wrote: > > > Why don't you just skip the middle man here (shortmarks.com) and use > > the Web Search Plugin? > > > Then, you can just (for instance) type "g" [tab] "what you want to > > search in google", instead of "shortmarks" [tab] "g bla". > > > This has the added advantage of not depending on a web service. > > Yeah, having all of this in Quicksilver directly would certainly be faster. > People that move around to different machines a lot might like to keep this > stuff on-line though. > > Someone could write a Shortmarks plug-in that goes out and turns all the > things you define into bookmarks or web searches. That would be the best of > both worlds. > > http://projects.skurfer.com/QuicksilverPlug-inReference.mdown > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/>
