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Google Quick Search Box

Google Quick Search Box

Keyboard-controlled launcher for your Mac and the web.

Version:  2.0.0.1447

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Not quite quicksilver yet

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Windgazer Saturday, June 13 2009 @ 05:42 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Still not sure how long quicksilver will remain viable so whenever a new product comes along that might have a chance of replacing it, I go ahead and try it out. QSB however, like all similar apps, fails to even come close to the quicksilver potential.
QSB does what most app-launchers do and adds a quick link to searching the net, wow, not impressed. Unless it's obscured but possible, QSB doesn't have context-aware triggering (start your search with whatever is highlighted), which I use a lot for opening a folder from a finder dialog into the terminal, or to dig deeper into such a folder's sub-tree. Also to open a document with something other than the default app, which QSB can't do even if you find the document from it's search-box.
Any custom triggers? Since QuickSilver has such comprehensive trigger-support I don't have to install numerous apps to, lock my screen when I walk away, control itunes through key-combo's and various other common tasks.
I was really psyched about QSB when I heard of it, google tends to come up with realy useful software, but this time it's useless, it doesn't do anything that doesn't come with OSX's own software...   
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