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Searchling

Name: Searchling
Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)

1.1

19 December 2002

Search your favorite sites in the menu bar.

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Overview

Searchling is a free, quick and unobtrusive way to access your favorite search sites in MacOS X. Once running, Searchling appears as a small icon (the 'G', for Google) in your menu bar alongside your other menulings. Click the icon and a small text field and two pop-up buttons will appear. Enter your search and hit return...poof, you've got results in your favorite Web browser. The source code is available.

What's new in Searchling

Version 1.1 adds the following:

Sites definitions now sorted in Application Support directory
Easier to edit, won't be overwritten with newer releases
Displays warning if you mess up the sites.xml file (and uses defaults)
Clicking the menu icon while its displayed will toggle it
Better support for right-clicking on the menu icon (not perfect)
New magnifiying glass icon
Added Google:Groups and Google:Mac to defaults

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6 Searchling Reviews

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Anonymous

04 December 2002

Most helpful

Awesome, very well implemented - and done beautifully.

Version 1.0

Shrizza

24 June 2006

This has got to be one of the more frequently used apps on my machine. I don't understand why it's no longer available for download. If Ambrosia really thinks they can add value that's actually worth buying, they would would allow the continued distribution of this app.

Version 1.1

Tfl

15 June 2003

Anonymous, you are missing something: the point is that you can (and should) customize it to search in your prefered search engines, *not* only in Google! - Anyway, meanwhile it has been assimilated by Ambrosia :-( ("iSeek")

Version 1.1

Anonymous

05 April 2003

Crap app. What's the point if you can only search in Google. Bloody pointless as you might as well have your browser running.

Version 1.1

Anonymous

09 January 2003

Awesome!!! Great Job, very easy to use, and extremely efficient

Version 1.1

Anonymous

18 December 2002

Superb software that works very well. It could use a better method for editing sites, however.