Daves Quick Search Deskbar 4.0 RC3

Daves Quick Search Deskbar is a tiny textbox that Dave Bau designed for search hounds with weary mouse-fingers. Unlike the Google Toolbar, this little deskbar lets you launch searches without starting a web browser first, directly from your Windows Explorer Taskbar.

You type your search and hit Enter for a regular Google search.

If youre feeling lucky, tack an exclamation point on to the end of your search - pow! - and go directly to the top ranked hit. It is Powered By Google, and Yes it Really Works.

Now you can do searches no matter what you are doing - email, word processing, programming, whatever.

Theres more. Youre not a captive to Google. Do Yahoo searches with a yh question, get Merriam-Webster definitions with a colon:, get Bloomberg stock quotes like this msft intc csco$, and find Switchboard phone numbers by saying Lois Lane#. You can search real news. search newsgroups, check weather*, or comparison shop$$. Theres a built in calculator when you need to know pow(1.0625, 30) is 6.1640785. And so on.

Too much to remember? Click the button on the search bar or press F1 and a menu shows you all your choices. Not enough space on your deskbar? It includes a clock so that you can free up some space by turning off the system deskbar clock