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Add Keyword Search to Safari with Keywurl
Posted by Adam Pash at 2:00 PM on February 26, 2008
Mac OS X only: Freeware Safari plug-in Keywurl brings the time-saving convenience of keyword searches to Safari, allowing users to type something like imdb Semi-Pro into the address bar to search IMDB rather than first going to the home page. Granted, this functionality comes built in to Firefox, and with a few tweaks to Firefox you can really supercharge your address bar with keyword bookmarks and searches, but for anyone who sticks with Safari for its raw speed and Mac-ness, Keywurl is a must-have. Keywurl is freeware, Mac OS X only.
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Devon
Posted 4:45 PM 26/2/08
If you like this feature, and I do, you should also check out Saft:
[haoli.dnsalias.com]
It's not free, but it does this and much more. It brings great ad blocking, auto tab saving, and more to Safari. It's a must have for me.
Devon
balls187
Posted 4:45 PM 26/2/08
Awesome. Keyword Search is by far the most gangster feature on Firefox.
Then add QuickSilver with Search Plugin is like whoa!
balls187
eleraama
Posted 6:25 PM 26/2/08
Most excellent, this is the biggest thing that kept me from using Safari. Firefox was such a memory hog that I hated opening it, but if I wanted my keyword searches I had to (although the Firefox 3 Beta seems to have fixed a lot of the memory leakage, woohoo!)
Also, I would recommend that anyone who likes using Safari tries a Webkit nightly build ([www.webkit.org])-- it's astoundingly fast.
eleraama
sam1am
Posted 9:37 PM 26/2/08
There are a number of plugins that do this, but keywurl works best with leopard. I found a bunch of other cool ones at pimpmysafari.com but genereally try to keep things lean.
sam1am
Insomnic
Posted 6:56 AM 27/2/08
I like Inquisitor, but still prefer the Firefox way of doing it. I wish I could arrange the search engine selection to the top of the Inquisitor panel - and there are some concerns about favoritism in the served up results part of the program - but it's a free program.
I hope Acid Search gets updated enough to work correctly with Safari 3.
Insomnic
twins8791
Posted 11:58 AM 27/2/08
ok...how do I get keywurl to do anything? I've got it installed, but I don't get how to use it. I want the same thing damen wants ^^. How do I set it up to do that? Or even just to preface a URL search with "g" to do a "Lucky" search?
twins8791
damen
Posted 11:58 AM 27/2/08
On a similar note, does anyone know how to add "I'm feeling lucky" functionality to the address bar, without hitting a modifier key? I know Inquisitor can probably do it, but I'd like it based in the address bar.
damen
damen
Posted 11:58 AM 27/2/08
Perhaps it's worthy to note that you can also use this to add a keyword without the search. Eg. type: "lh" to go to www.lifehacker.com
I'm away from my computer, but I think you just put in the keyword and a url, and don't worry about the @@@ or $$$.
damen
shipahoy
Posted 9:23 AM 28/2/08
@twins8791: Just set the "default" keyword to "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnI=I'm Feeling Lucky&q=$$$".
The next version of Keywurl will let you right-click on any search field (such as Google's) and select Create Keyword Search, and it'll save a new keyword from the search form, including any additional options such as check boxes.
Incidentally, Tiger support was broken in the latest version. A bug-fix release is out now which remedies this error.
shipahoy
damen
Posted 9:55 AM 29/2/08
Hey! Thanks shipahoy, I've just upgraded to the new version to do this "default" thing.
@twins: To get it to do a keyword search, type in a sample search on the site you want it to perform a search on (use any text). When you get the results page, copy the url and paste it into the keywurl preference pane, replacing the sample text with @@@. Then associate it with a keyword!
Not too hard, but the next version sounds much easier!
damen