HeySage

In this episode The Sage shows you how to search Google from Quicksilver (difficulty level: intermediate).

You can watch this episode here

Many power users find Quicksilver at the center of their OS X universe. Quicksilver is a freeware application and is described (by the elusive developer) as a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. It has been stated that Quicksilver is the greatest productivity application ever. If you are not familiar with Quicksilver, LifeHacker and 43 Folders have wonderful introductions to this obscurity known as Quicksilver.

Now, to the tutorial.

This is really simple and can be done in about ten seconds. Here we go.

1. Launch Safari
2. Google Search for ***
3. Press ⌘D to bookmark the search. Title the bookmark GS (or whatever you would like). The bookmark title is what you will type in quicksilver to initiate the search.
4. Close (⌘Q) or Hide(⌘H) Safari.
5. Launch Quicksilver (⌃SpaceBar) and rescan the catalog (⌘R).
6. Type GS and tab past Search For… and start typing away. Whatever you type will be searched for and the results will be displayed in Safari (of course you can do this with Firefox too).

The Sage uses this little trick daily. The Sage hopes that it helps you too.