re:search 1.0

re:search is a little application that’ll hopefully make your Internet search life a little faster.

Modeled after Apple’s Spotlight and snap.com, re:search breaks Internet search down into three steps:

Press Command-Shift-Space from any application.
Type something in the search box and hit Return.
Results ahoy!

Beyond the basics, you can narrow down your search to a specific site (for example, imdb.com). As you might expect, re:search remembers your recent searches and the specific sites you’ve searched for quick access later. (The “site” field autocompletes, so you can just type “im” for imdb.com, and such.) The results of your searches are cached for about a day to further improve performance.

re:search is a “UI element” application, which means it has no icon in the Dock. While I’m sure some people will hate this, I can’t stand having more than 10 or 12 Dock tiles—and besides, the global hotkey is there for instant Internet search access. Instead, re:search provides an icon in the menu bar next to Sync Services, the battery meter, Spotlight, and whatever other doohickeys you might have up there. I’m really not sure what most people think, and for some reason Apple has made it very difficult for this to be user-configurable, so I’ll have to listen to what people want for the next version on this.

You can do some additional things, like drag and drop individual results out of the result list into your favorite Internetmobile (if you need to), or hit the Open button, or double-click the result. Because re:search is not meant to be a full-featured browser, when you hit a download link, this too will open in your default browser.

There may be some other features. You’re advised to read the Help page, which will pop up the first time you launch the application, or at any time from the menu.

Have fun, and be sure to let me know what you think.

Download re:search (Apple disk image, about 180kb, Universal, requires Tiger, etc.)

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Published:: 7.11.06 / 12pm

Category:: Programming

George 7.25.06 / 12am

This is a pretty cool little app. Just started playing with it but I already like it.

Any chance of getting a keyboard shortcut to highlight the Search field in an open re:search window? Or did I miss it in the Help?

Thanks!

David Young 7.25.06 / 11am

If the search field isn’t already selected automatically, you should be able to select it using Tab.

Cheers!

"Grumpy Disabled Vet" 7.26.06 / 2pm

Re: re:search 1.1. It appears you have neat little app, but I do have a problem. But I will tell you up front, the problem may not be your app, but the old fool on this side of the keyboard. My MacIntel iMac keyboard is configured with the “Dvorak” layout. Now I can type in my search term and get one list of choices for the search. I did not get the number of choices available. I hit the “command” key and the “G” key and it would not scroll down. I then considered it might not recognize it, I then the hit “command” and the “I” key. This would be the “G” key on the Sholes or qwerty keyboard. I got the same response, nothing. Any suggestions?

“Grumpy”

David Young 7.27.06 / 2am

It’s possible that the search string you entered to search the web isn’t actually present in the document which was returned, in which case “Find Next” does nothing. Try Command-F to bring up the Find Panel, see if it says “Not Found”.

It’s interesting to note how often the words you enter into a search engine *don’t* appear in the documents which are returned

tłumaczenia angielski 9.22.07 / 7am

Thanx a lot! This is very useful.

chen jen 10.27.07 / 12am

Can’t open it by 2-clicking its icon in the /Applications folder. If I open Contents/MacOS I find an executable re/search. 2-clicking this opens terminal and indeed puts an item into the menu bar. Is there no way to have it behave in the usual Mac GUI way? Thanks for any help.

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