DEVONagent Express

Name: DEVONagent Express
Price: 4.95 $
Rating: 4.0556 (9 reviews)

DEVONagent Express overview

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)

What’s new in version 3.11.5

Updated on Jul 22 2021

Version 3.11.5:

This maintenance release focuses on plugins and search sets. We revised a large number of plugins to restore or improve their capabilities. Some plugins or search sets received new names for clarity. And we have again improved both performance and reliability.

New

A new Bing plugin is available and Bing is again used in the Web plugin.

Improved

Updated plugins: Google, Google (PDF), Google News, Google Blog Search, Google Patent Search, Google Video, Google Scholar (Articles), Google (Last Week), Google (Last Year), Facebook Profiles, Amazon, ingentaconnect, American Chemical Society, Github Code Search, ACM Digital Library, Medline Plus, BBC News, Qwant, SEC, Acronym Finder, Dictionaries, Infoplease, FDA, WebMD, Yandex, World News Network, and Reuters.
Updated healthfinder.gov plugin and renamed it to MyHealthFinder.
Updated plugin Apple > Knowledge Base and renamed it to Apple Support.
Replaced outdated Ohloh Code Search plugin with a new Openhub Search plugin.
Improved reliability of plugins using the EngineSite key.
Reduced memory usage while searching.

Removed

Removed plugins: Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Directory, Open Directory, WoW, StackOverflow, Apple Cocoa-Dev, Cocoabuilder, and Topix.

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Oak

May 5 2014

3.8

0.5

Version: 3.8

I cannot erase the very first search I made with DE. Every time I fire this up, the first search always appears in the search window. This has the potential to be somewhat to extremely embarrassing, depending upon one's first search and who is standing by one's computer when one calls this up. What would be a five-star App gets one half star as a result of this

june8

Mar 26 2013

3.4

5.0

Version: 3.4

Excellent search utility.

Surfspirit

May 28 2012

3.2

Version: 3.2

Thank God this information is Wrong and it stills compatible with 32 bits OS/Macs

Funjoy

Jan 15 2012

3.1.1

Version: 3.1.1

By far the easiest and fastest way to get smart/focused search results. Better than searching through pages of Google results (even if you know Goo search operators).

Slarkin

Dec 9 2011

DEVONagent Express is a fine product, but the App Store is very problematic. I went there to update to 3.1.1 in my account and it tells me that all my apps are up to date. I go to DEVONtechnologies, LLC URL and no is no choice to update on their site and, of course, we can no longer update certain applications on MacUpdate. DEVONagent Express itself contains no updater. So what is one to do???? I have found the App Store to be so unlike anything the Steve Jobs envisioned or even a representative as an Apple product. This is not the first time that the App Store has been a problem for me, plus the last time I e-mailed them for support online, with the online acknowledgement that my e-mail was received, I never received a reply from the the App Store.

Iliketrash

Dec 8 2011

The version now described here is 3.1.1 but the version offered at the Mac App Store as well as the version included with DEVONthink are still at 3.1.

Jul 26 2011

3.0.3

Version: 3.0.3

I do wonder why so many people do not understand the difference between commercial software and shareware. And how many of this individuals complaining about the Mac App Store have purchased copies of Mac OS X over the years without a "Test Drive" first, seems a bit hypocritical. The App Store is no different than any other means of distributing commercial software, and IMO the only people that will complain about it are probably not going to pay for shareware anyway.

Colette

Jun 12 2011

3.0.2

Version: 3.0.2

No demo no sales at Macupdate. Wanna test it before buy it.

xcoxco

May 24 2011

3.0

Version: 3.0

Will this functionality be part of DEVONagent 3?