Huevos - Another great desktop Internet search tool
Jun 04, '03 08:10:00AM
Contributed by: robg
The macosxhints Rating:

[Score: 8 out of 10]
Regular readers here will know I'm always on the lookout for the next great "search the Internet from the desktop" tool -- previous winners of the PotW include ShadowGoogle and Searchling. This week, Huevos takes the spotlight as another variant on the same theme. Huevos features most everything I look for in an offline search tool:- Activation via the keyboard (modifiable hot key)
- Select search engines via the keyboard
- Expandable list of search sites
- Small and unobtrusive GUI
What makes Huevos particularly nice are the inclusion of search functions for both the PHP and MySQL sites (along with some other less common sites), the ability to easily define additional search sites, and user-assignable hotkeys for the various search engines. For example, if you search Google Images quite often, you can assign Command-I to switch the search engine to Google Images.
The two changes I'd like to see in Huevos are (1) an option to hide the dock icon and yet still have the Prefs menu selectable via some method (drop-down menu or somesuch) and (2) re-order the search site list via drag and drop -- as it works now, the list is sorted by alpha, and I'd like to put my top five sites at the top of the list. But these are fairly minor quibbles -- the ability to add new sites and fully control Huevos via the keyboard give it a great edge in usability, and you can't beat the price. I'm not sure it's completely replacing Searchling for me (as I do like the fact that Searchling doesn't take a spot in the dock), but Huevos definitely earned a spot in my DragThing launcher!
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