Search Google from the desktop

Jun 29, '02 01:09:26PM

Contributed by: robg

In the course of my browsing for cool OS X software this morning, I ran into shadowGoogle (alternate download here). This freeware Cocoa application puts a floating text box (optionally floating over all windows) on your screen. To find something on Google, just type in a word or phrase in the search box, and hit return. Your preferred browser then opens the Google search results page.

There's not much more to it than that - you can set the size and color of the "Search for" text which appears next to the search box; you can even turn it off, which is what I did. You can also control how many results to display on the page, what languages to search in, and whether to search keywords, images, newsgroups, or Mac sites.

You can also switch which type of data to search for without opening the prefs panel -- just hit command-K for keywords, -I for images, -G for groups, and -M for Mac sites before you hit return in the search box.

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