wow thats pretty cool. And yea that'd be a lot better than creative commons in the search box. One thing that used to annoy me about the search box was not being able to rearrange the search engines, but today i came across this extension. i also noticed that once your in the search box you can swap between search engines using ctrl+up and ctrl+down.

Like Google Suggest on steroids.

Yahoo! Instant Search is another shiny thing in a similar vein.

Thats incredible, would love to have that as a Firefox search engine plugin too. I wonder if other engines like Google are looking at this kind of technology, kinda live searching. CustomizeGoogle extension has a Google suggest as your typing saying like Mark Mentions, but this inquisitor is amazing. We have Live Bookmarks, bring on LIVE SEARCHING!!

Interesting...

can't block google ads via Adblock !

Cool.Snap.com does pretty much the same thing and they have an Fx plugin, but the feature only works on their site, not the Search Bar.

I meant Cool! not Cool.Snap.com

That would be an amazing ability for the Firefox Search box. I've been trying to think of ways that search could be better unified, and that's pretty much it. Type something in, and it will search google, your bookmarks, your history, and whatever else you might want.

Put it into a automatic pop-out sidebar, and it could be combined with find as you type, so that you start typing and it finds links in the page, but also gives you search options. Hit enter, and the selected link is opened. Press the arrow keys up and down to select options from the search sidebar (or just use the mouse).

The sidebar would look like this:

----------------
| Find in Page
|
| Google
| -Search result 1
| -Search result 2
|
| Bookmarks
| -bookmark item 1
| -bookmark item 2
|
| History
| -history item 1
| -history item 2
----------------

"Find in Page" would be selected by default.

It's Apple's Spotlight for the Net. I'm sure Apple is cooking up the same thing in some way. Hmm. Is a C&D coming? ;-)

cool

I meant cool! not cool!

Quite cool indeed. Highly obfuscated JavaScript in the HTML, and it seems to use a local (possibly caching) proxy of sorts for all requests (ran it through Fiddler).

All in all, quite impressive.

Integrating Beagle into Firefox would be another cool search idea. And porting Beagle to Windows (well, it already runs) and doing some shell integration. But I digress...

It is good for totally clueless searchers. I find it annoying, too comercially oriented, and merely a way to connect folks to commercial sites to fleece them more than they are fleeced currently. No serious researcher would use this.

That said, as a plugin, not already a part of Firefox, it would be OK. But if that were an integral part of it, I'd have to use SeaMonkey 1.0b or Opera full time.

Why is there a search button? :)

Lack of self-confidence I guess =)
Pretty cool though.

There's always the official Google Suggest search plugin for Firefox

http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/extensions/suggest/index.html

You (MoFo) could always install that instead of the standard one...

Indeed, Google Suggest is also available. I used the search plugin for a while but for some reason it was causing my extension updates to hang.

This is definately Apple's spotlight meets Google.

Who do we press to see this included in the search box?

"There's always the official Google Suggest search plugin for Firefox"

"You (MoFo) could always install that instead of the standard one..."

Oh no, please not that !

To my eye, a cursory read of the Google privacy policy says they can use your personal information however they wish to.

They have great technology, but they want too much from me in exchange. Pity, but it's not worth it.

Sincerely,

Lawrence
Ithaca