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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Fri - July 30, 2004
At Last, New Search Tools For Safari
It was novel and convenient, empowering and desirable, and Jobs looked upon it and saw that it was good.
And the Faithful sang his praises and downloaded his browser. But in time, questions troubled their sleep and heaviness came upon their hearts, and they cried out:
"What if what we need to find images or news? And what if we want to use Yahoo, Amazon, or eBay? Can't we have search options like we once had with Sherlock?"
And answer there came none and darkness lay upon the land.
Until now.
Because now there is Pozytron.com's AcidSearch, a free search enhancement for Safari under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther that adds additional "channels" to that browser's Google search bar. AcidSearch lets you toggle between searching Google and searching Google images, Google news, or a variety of popular entertainment, news, reference, and shopping sites. It even imports preferences from Ambrosia Software's deservedly popular iSeek application for a consistent search experience across your computing environment and the option to add tens of pre-defined search sites to your browser.
A really nice touch.
The downsides? AcidSearch is beta software that does not run on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and that exhibits several noticeable quirks, including the inabilities to switch between search sites using the keyboard or to use SnapBack with any search channels except the original Google channel. On rare occasions, Safari will generate JavaScript errors and refuse to search at all. And as yet, there's no documentation whatsoever.
But better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Updates from the developer:
If you ever need to remove AcidSearch, delete the AcidSearch bundle in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.
A bug in the current version generates a Javascript error whenever a search query includes a single quotation mark. You can get around this for the time being by putting a backslash in front of quotations. For example: "all the president\'s men"...