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Official Google Mac Blog: Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
Official Google Mac Blog: Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 1/12/2009 06:00:00 PM By Nicholas Jitkoff and Dave MacLachlan, Google Mac Team One of our goals at Google is to make your search experience as fluid as possible. While much of our work is focused on Google.com, we're trying to make it just as easy to search outside ...
Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
googleblog.blogspot.com — Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library. Today,... search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home. Tools like email, online books and ... (more) Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
technology.timesonline.co.uk — Click here for how to reduce the footprint of the Web | Google's response to the story... Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new ... (more) Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches
  qsb-mac -    Google Code
qsb-mac - Google Code
code.google.com — Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on... your computer and across the web. This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, ... (more) qsb-mac - Google Code
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Google Releases Quicksilver Like Quick-Search Tool for the Mac
The Next Web — ... Google have just released a nifty developer preview of a quick search tool for the Mac. It’s called Google Quick Search and it’s apparently the sibling of the mobile search app. ...

Google launches experimental search tool for Macs
VentureBeat — ... Google started as a search company, and it still does work on that from time to time. Today, the company released a new Quick Search Box for Macs that aims “to make it just as easy to search outside your browser,” a post on the Google Mac Blog reads. ...

Quick Search Box: Google's Take on Popular Mac App, Quicksilver
Wired: Epicenter — ... Google has announced a new Mac-only search project by the name of Quick Search Box. Quick Search Box is hybrid application that indexes files on your Mac and provides Google web searches, all wrapped in an interface that will be very familiar to anyone who’s used the popular Mac application, ...

Google Intros New Quick Search Box for Mac [TheAppleBlog]
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Google Quick Search Box for Mac
Google Operating System — ... "For the last year, we have been working on a new, open-source quick search box. Today, we are releasing our first developer preview for the Mac. This Mac version is much more experimental than its iPhone sibling, Google Mobile App, and through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come," explains Google. ...

Google’s open source ‘Quick Search Box for the Mac’
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google released a new open source application for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard called “Quick Search Box” that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come. ...

Google Lets Mac Users Quickly Search Outside the Browser
WebProNews Feed — ... Earlier in the year, Google gave developers a preview of a new open-source quick search box for Mac outside of the browser. The company has now made this available to everyone. ...

In Depth: Google Quick Search Box vs Quicksilver
Techradar - All the latest technology news — The new Google Quick Search Box (QSB) for Mac is designed to make things easier. Summon it with a quick key combination and you can use it to find and launch applications, track down elusive files, dig up contacts or search the web. It sounds very familiar, with good reason: apps such as Quicksilver have been doing much the same for years. So is QSB a Quicksilver killer? The short answer is probably - but not quite yet. Getting started For all its joys, Quicksilver is a pain in the neck to get to grips with. Installing ...

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