DEVONagent Express

DEVONagent Express (based on DEVONsphere) brings Web search directly to your menu bar. Just like Spotlight searches your computer, DEVONagent Express searches the Web and presents the results directly in its menu. A great selection of top-notch search engines and large tool tips with preview pictures and summaries let you find the right page before you open it in your Web browser. You can even query all three major Web search engines all at the same time or use pre-fab collections such as a thumbnail gallery search set.

Your search assistant: While the 'express' mode just collects the results the 'agent' mode does a lot more for you in the background. It downloads each page, filters advertisements, error pages as well as pages that don't fit your question, and applies its own ranking. No more Error 404 pages, no more pages that have nothing to do with your search at all.

Features

• What DEVONagent Express does for you:
• Let's you search the Web as easy as using Spotlight
• Shows convenient summaries and preview pictures
• Filters advertisements and error pages
• Gives you only really relevant results back
• Talks to more than 80 general-purpose and specialized search engines
• Perfectly integrated and easy to use:
• Located directly in the menu bar, always there when you need it
• Opens results in your Web browser or DEVONagent (if available)
• You already know how to use it
• Accessible by pressing a hotkey
• Supported search engines categories:
• General purpose
• Apple- and Mac-related (e.g., App Store, MacUpdate)
• Blogs
• Computer science
• Dictionaries (e.g., Wiktionary)
• Directories
• Educational resources
• Government
• Images and videos (e.g., YouTube, Flickr)
• Legal
• News
• Patents
• References (e.g., Wikipedia)
• Science
• Social networking (e.g., Facebook profiles, Twitter)

This release features fixes, including greater compatibility with macOS Mojave, as well as other improvements. Developer has reorganized the search sets and updated a number of plugins too.

Improved

• Plugins updated: Qwant, Yandex, Blogs > Google Blog Search, News > BBC News, News > Google News, News > Topix, News > World News Network, Patents > Google Patents
• Search sets updated: Marketing, Mac > Latest News, and Mac > Latest Software.
• Renamed, merged, and reorganized the default search sets.
• Tooltips in the results now update more quickly.
• Improved filtering and retrieval of links, especially in Express mode.
• Results from adsabs.harvard.edu and adsbit.harvard.edu aren't filtered as advertisements any longer.
• Improved support for "robots.txt".
• Moved to HTTPS for all URLs linking to our site.
• Generating web page thumbnails uses a new service as Thumbshots will shut down November 15, 2018.
• Improved overall reliability, including greater compatibility with macOS Mojave.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where searching the Safari history didn't work (macOS Sierra and later).
• Fixed an issue with automatically updating to the latest version.
• Fixed a rare issue with the HTML parser.
• Fixed a rare crash caused by memory management.

Removed

• Plugins removed: IEEE Xplore, Technorati, Lucky Guess.