loving it so far... Some things I like to see: movie showtimes, store hours and phone numbers, google maps, Remember The Milk integration, Google Calendar integration.

YES quicksilver run by google! this happened in a dream once, except i was in ireland eating cake surrounded by scantly clad beautiful women

Pretty cool! Looks like alcor has taken his project to a new level! I hope development on this project will be swift and overwhelming as it was in the beginning of Quicksilver.

I look forward to new releases and will contribute as much as possible.

Search of google mail anytime soon?

THANK YOU, looking forward to future updates.

Thanks for the comments folks. We really appreciate them. We encourage you to post comments to the qsb-mac-discuss group so they can by threaded and responded to easily.

What about a Windows version? Is it planned?

I'd love to be able to type an app name and in addition to the current options, be able to see recently opened documents from that app, so I can start it up directly with one of those docs

reminds me of mozilla labs ubiquity functionality.

Wow, loving it. I can't wait to see how far this goes.

...and suddenly I no longer have a reason to keep LaunchBar? on my mac :-)

Very nice and sleek........ bravo to the application developper, they nailed it

nice, but sometimes when i press the key comination to bring qsb to the front it freezes and does not appear. no response anymore. only solution is to kill the process from the terminal, i also have to kill the "google desktop"-somewhat process. then restart it. i can reproduce the bug just by using it, it happens regulary.

anyway: very nice software

This seems very promising, however it seems to crash alot for me. Launching local files seems ok, however triggering web content via firefox seems to send the app into a "not responding" state after launching the page.

This seems to be happening every time with Version 2.0.0 (2.0.0.808) on this iMac here.

Ill keep trying later versions as you pop em out, thanks.

Please allow me to invoke QSB with my otherwise useless enter key. Quicksilver allows this, and it is now ingrained in my brain. Please?

It'd be great to have customizable searches, for example, I make a search called "imdb", that I type "imdb" hit tab, then "Return of the King" will take me to the IMDB search page with "Return of the King" as my search text (but generalized, so I could make it use the search feature of any website I want)

Great app but when I search for example on "duck" it doesn't find Cyberduck. It only search for the first letter not the last. If that works, this is the new Quicksilver.

Already feels very polished. So far I feel like the menu works better than Quicksilver did for me. Maybe Im not used to it yet, but it almost works so quickly that you forget you used it. It would be nice to have custom skins like Quicksilver allowed. Is it possible to integrate some of the features of Firefox's Ubiquity plug in? That is a very good plugin with a lot of potential. Tying the two together would kick ass from a power users perspective.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Latest_Ubiquity_User_Tutorial

Love it, the search within a search result with tab is fantastic!!!

I wish there was some more information about the future of this project. I would like to know for instance whether there will be a way to add events to google calendar, or mac calendar for that matter.

Nice effort. I'm going to keep playing around with it for a bit. One question I have: what relationship does QSB have with Google Desktop for Mac? It seems like there's a huge area of feature overlap in the area of search (sure, each product has unique things to recommend it, but in many ways they're very similar).

Does QSB use the same index as GD? It seems not, so do I now have QSB, GD, and spotlight indexing agents running on my machine?

Do you envision QSB replacing GD over time? Why a new project instead of improving the existing one?

Cheers, Mike

One thing that is sorely missing from Spotlight is the ability to search network shares. I know there was discussion about including that as a feature in Google Desktop Search for MAC but it doesn't seem to have come about. Would that be a viable feature request and within scope for this project??

Simple request; make it JUST LIKE Quicksilver. Easy peasy.

I suspect that an API will be released soon, so people can start developing their own plugins to add services like RTM or whatever.

Yes. Please make it Quicksilver. Or make it simple by default, but make it extensible within the object->action paradigm.

Please include in your release notes that you have to uninstall Google Desktop Search. They both use the same key combination to launch.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. As a daily Quicksilver user, I cannot say just how much this development means to me. I use Quicksilver more often than any other program on my computer, infact, quicksilver is usually the begining of alot of my Google searches...

This is really really cool. Thank you very much.

You said qsb-mac does not yet search gmail. I have several times submitted the suggestion, in the case of Google Desktop Search, that it should allow us to search multiple gmail accounts. Many people have multiple gmail accounts, e.g. one for work, one for home etc. but that suggestion has never been implemented. Thus far, Google Desktop Search can only search one gmail account. Therefore, I'm asking whether qsb-mac will be made to search more than one gmail account, preferably as many as the user stipulates. What do you think?

I second the request for google maps, google calendar and movie showtimes. Also, when GQSB can search gmail I'd like to be able to search the contacts in there just like the ones in Address Book.

translate <tab> <my son's homework question about spanish> or xlate en2sp <tab> english phrase xlate sp2en <tab> spanish phrase

Another one I just thought of: Google Reader search. I'd love if it would suggest site's whose feeds I have subscribed to and also let me search within those posts.

Two features of Quicksilver I just can't live without: the 'make the text bigger' when I'm looking for telephone numbers in my contacts, to easily dial them on the phone, and the fact that you can imput new text in the text field immediatly after a copule seconds without having to select and delete what you wrote before. If QSB gets these two I'm ready to make the transition immediatly! Ciao!

Nice idea, but it crashes more often than it works... and while it will locate MP3s, it won't play them in iTunes (or even start iTunes).

Back to Quicksilver for now, I guess.

I'd love integration with the build in Oxford Dictionary. Being able to run Terminal commands would also be cool

Also I second any request to make it more like Quicksilver ;) QS was a godsend in terms of Usability

I'm also seconding any Quicksilver-related requests. As a Tiger user, seeing QSB catch up would great entice me to upgrade.

Yes! I like that it is as easy and clean as Spotlight to search, but the results are better. I would also like to see Maps. It would be nice if it would recognize that I had entered an address.

great application. one bug, when i type in 'st' (such at attempting to type string), it crashes.

Awesome!!!

Does the Google Quick Search Box prompt for auto-updates, or do I need to keep checking back for updates?

Thanks, Christian

It needs a way to prioritize results by user prefs... like,list matching apps first, spotlight finds next, etc. Making the preferences list items draggable would be nice way to do that. Next, I want to set certain "searches" to always bring up and start something.... like "photocs4" locked to loading PhotoShop? CS4.

Very nice start on something with nice potential.

how about the special website search from google chrome? for example when i type imdb.com (tab) dexter it should directly perform the search on imdb.com for dexter. that would be really nice

you could also add a wikipedia feature so that everything like wikipedia (TAB) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart goes to $locale.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart?

so far: qsb replaced my quicksilver today :)

great software, thanks a lot

Fantastic app!! An unsophisticated Quicksilver is what I like about it, easy to use, practically explains itself. I couldn't open some Library folders by just using their name, but found out if I type ~/Library then the folder it works, so 4 different times I included another folder. Now all I have to type is ~/L and the 4 folders come up and all I need do is choose one of them. The "tab" feature is great!! Keep up the good work:-) I did put a folder within a folder but was unable to open it. I'll try again another time. Keep up the great work.

Hi, Just started using gQSB about an hour ago. Looks good so far. I use QS (love it) on a regular basis. Will gQSB have the same (+) action & functionality QS, I hope so, I understand the developer is the same person. Good job so far. But for now I will use QS & gQSB in tandem.

Regards John

Please add the Quicksilver function that allows searching websites with user supplied address. I use it on QS all the time to search my university's library. Thanks! -Ken

If it would been solved soon and gets successful in market sure it will be rock. colorado

It would be fantastic if there was a way to search links on del.icio.us with this

love it. already using QS, can't work without. I will follow up the continued developement of QSB. looking forward to news. congrats. thank you!

+1 for explaining how to use the Twitter integration.

The current version is much stable and faster. I think I can finally make the switch from Quicksilver.

This is sooo awesome, I was looking for another free alternative to Quicksilver (since QS isn't being developed anymore) and this is just what I was looking for!

There are a few features that needed to be added before it can possibly be a viable QuickSilver? alternative:

a) Camel case search. So in QS if I type "ogp" it finds "OmniGraffle? Professional". Without this feature QSB is nowhere near as powerful b) Custom catalogs. In QS you can define custom catalogs of files to search anywhere on your HD. Again without the ability to do this, its a no go. c) Activate with selected items. So in QS you can select some files/folders in Finder and then hit a QS combo that loads QS with these items selected. You can then do "Copy to" or "Move to" to copy/move files (this latter feature is also missing)

There are other things (like the iTunes plugin is too basic etc.) but these are the main ones for me. Anyway nice start, hopefully one day it can replace QS.

Pretty impressive start. How about the text append feature from Quicksilver? In addition to tweeting or enlarging the type of the text entered, offer an option to append to a text file.

I second all the requests for integration with other Google tools -- Gmail, Google Reader, Maps, and GCal. And, I second support for Remember the Milk.

How come QSB can't find any applications in subfolders of Applications ? Like "Printer Setup Utility.app" ?

Prwiding,

Printer Setup Utility.app has been removed in Leopard.

http://getsatisfaction.com/apple/topics/no_printer_setup_utility_in_leopard

Thanks, Rohit

This is quite awesome ! made my Day great stuff I love the Twitter support. Who said that About Launchbar is right!

does it do the comma trick?

So far so good. Still a far cry from QuickSilver?. Sad but true. Here is wishing that it will surpass QuickSilver? sooner than later ;)

I want to add another destination for text messages besides Twitter. Do I use Twitter code as the base?

Hey folks, the best place to make comments and start discussions is in our mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/qsb-mac-discuss

This is not intended as a discussion board.

Thanks. I am loving it. Much easier to use than QuickSilver?, great work. Will it search Firefox Bookmarks though?

would love to be able to search firefox history

Beats the best out there. Kudos Nick, we can now put QuickSilver? to rest :)

Is there any way to launch applications with a single key assignment say F1 like in Quicksilver

PLUGINS

Is Google planning on approving plugins so that we know they're safe to use? Thx.

Any chances for a Cyberduck plugin?

Very good piece of Software but I have a question. How can we prevent QSB to index and show iPhone app of my hard drive?

Could it be possible to only index /Applications folder for apps ?

Repeating myself again ;-)

Hey folks, the best place to make comments and start discussions is in our mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/qsb-mac-discuss

This is not intended as a discussion board.

Hey guys this is a promising start indeed. I have grudgingly removed quicksilver today because of stability issues. I hope the plug in development will move along quickly and that I get my favourite apps to talk to qsb soon. Keep up the good work.

Am i the only one who can't figure this out?

You wrote: "If you'd like to bring up the Google Quick Search Box, you press Cmd-Cmd (The Apple Key) twice. You can configure this from preferences."

Great~! Which preferences? Firefox prefs or system prefs? Then what do I do? Sorry - I guess I'm lame!

@barnet.slosberg,

- Press cmd + cmd - When QSB is up, press cmd + ,

It should show QSB preferences window. Let us know if you can't figure out any other stuffs with QSB.

-Rohit

I can't sign up my google account! only twitter can~"~

Wish to have mail features like in the QS, sending file without opening the mail.app, rescaling images, move, copy, etc. :)

For some reason in preferences QSB offers me the chance to get results from google.co.UK - I'm in Australia and my log-in account is .co.nz. Why UK? Why not Albania?

My primary use for quicksilver is to open multiple webpages at once from a safari bookmark folder. QSB doesn't seem to do that yet...

I am loving it!

But how the heck do I actually open documents once I find them?!!! I can find all sorts of stuff – but just cannot find ways to open it? I find this even more frustrating than the original Quick Silver (of which I was a very non-power user till my machine practically collapsed under the weight of running it)

Disappointing. Lacks 80% of the original Quicksilver.

moving, copying etc. finder items would be lovely.

Very polished so far!!!

I really, really miss being able to set up website-specific searches for stuff that google doesn't index (e.g., my company's bug database), so that I can search in QSB like I used to be able to do in QS.

I like Quick Search, but I would like to be able to search (scholar/maps).google.com. When I search "scholar.google.com" <tab> "some article", it would be nice to see that the search result were actually opened in Google Scholar, rather than in the standard Google page (especially since it gives no results there). Similar for Google Maps. With a little tweaking, this is possible using QS.

needs more of the QS magic

testing

downloaded it yesterday. problem finding local files by name. it only finds them after I perform similar search in Spotlight. any ideas why?

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