And another advantage is their are a bunch of web search objects, not just Google. So you can search Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Quicksilver has its own built in catalog of web searches, but it also pulls any you have in Safari/Chrome/Firefox if you have their plugins enabled.
You can also do it in reverse choosing the web search URL first, then Search For, then the text which I find even smoother. And that approach allows you to use the comma trick, so you can search multiple sites at once! This is a great blog summary on what is possible. It really does blow the "Search with Google" service action away. http://blog.qsapp.com/post/4866725595/searching-the-web-with-quicksilver d On Sunday, August 26, 2012 9:42:01 PM UTC-4, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Tyler Perkins > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > >> luckily, for this use case in particular, Quicksilver makes it pretty > easy > >> to do in other ways. > > > > Does it? I've thoroughly poked around and found nothing easy. Could > > you please elaborate? Thanks. > > > Using the web search plug-in, I mean. For me, (once the text is in the > first pane) I only have to hit > > ⇥ f ⇥ g ↩ > > to run "text" → Find With… → DuckDuckGo. Typing 'g' is an old habit when > searching for some reason. ;-) > > Either you didn't know about this way to search, or you don't think it's > "easy", which is a little ridiculous in my opinion. I realize by using the > service, you only need to deal with the second pane and tab once, but it's > not like the other way is terrible. :-) > > Having said that, it's possible to get it to a single keystroke with a > trigger. For instance, make a trigger for Quicksilver Selection → Find > With… → Google, set its scope so it only works in Quicksilver, and assign > it a keystroke. > > Now, it occurs to me as I go through this yet again that if the Services > Menu plug-in can add new actions programmatically, why can't the Web Search > plug-in do the same? In other words, it should be possible to enhance the > Web Search plug-in so all of the web searches in your catalog become > actions too, so you can just pick a search engine in the second pane and > go. I've added a [comment][1] to an open issue listing some planned > enhancements. You can follow the progress there. > > [1]: > https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/851#issuecomment-8045411 > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en.
