Sogudi is a really nice (free) plug-in for Safari that allows you to define shortcuts and search strings for easy access. For example, Sogudi comes preinstalled with a shortcut to search MacOSXHints. With Sogudi installed, just enter
hint search_term in the Address Bar (replacing
search_term with your own serach terms), and Sogudi will display the results. It comes with several nice shortcuts already installed (including Google (
goo), dictionary.com (
dict), php.net (
php), etc.), and you can easily create your own. Here's one I made for searching the MacOSXHints forums (you'll understand it better after installing Sogudi):
http://forums.macosxhints.com/search.php?
s=&query=@@@&searchuser=&exactname=yes&forumchoice
=-1&titleonly=&showposts=&searchdate=
-1&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending
&action=simplesearch&Submit=Perform+Search
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