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#80 Direct Google search

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2006-08-18
2006-08-18
Mark
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Search Google directly with default web browser. I.e.,

"goog myquery"

Or,

"yahoo myquery"

Would be amazing.

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  • Brad

    Brad - 2006-08-18

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    not to be a negative nancy, but... does ever application
    have to have a google search feature? I'm guessing you
    always have Firefox open.. just use a keyword
    http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/smart-keywords.html
    (or it's built in search bar).

     
  • Mark

    Mark - 2006-08-18

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    Actually, no. I usually close Firefox because of the
    performance hit to my computer. I have a gig of RAM, but FF
    and the computer in general become sluggish when I leave FF
    open. So, no.

    Besides which, as the flip side of your argument -- yes,
    every application <i>does</i> have to have a Google search
    feature these days. Why? Because that's what users want and
    expect. Launchy is by far the best launcher app I've
    discovered, and my hat is off to Josh Karlin for his great
    work, but I don't think that's any reason not to make the
    program even better. It'd be a relatively simple feature to
    implement, wouldn't have to add any interface clutter, and
    would make life easier for myself and, I'd bet, many other
    users. And after all, that last <i>is</i> what this program
    is about.

     
  • Mark

    Mark - 2006-08-18

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    Actually, no. I usually close Firefox because of the
    performance hit to my computer. I have a gig of RAM, but FF
    and the computer in general become sluggish when I leave FF
    open. So, no.

    Besides which, as the flip side of your argument -- yes,
    every application <i>does</i> have to have a Google search
    feature these days. Why? Because that's what users want and
    expect. Launchy is by far the best launcher app I've
    discovered, and my hat is off to Josh Karlin for his great
    work, but I don't think that's any reason not to make the
    program even better. It'd be a relatively simple feature to
    implement, wouldn't have to add any interface clutter, and
    would make life easier for myself and, I'd bet, many other
    users. And after all, that last <i>is</i> what this program
    is about.

     
  • deadcaribou

    deadcaribou - 2007-01-19

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    would be a great new feature !

     

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