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Cheers for the comment. I'll try to see if I can define my vision for this project

The idea I had in beginning was to merge all the search boxes out there into, to avoid having to go to the main page of every site before I could search it.

But then I realised that are a lot of other things that I'd like to do when at "The Main Searchbox". What if I would like to search for a friend on Facebook, or from my email contacts in GMail. What if I could select a contact and then just send them a quick email? Perhaps I could also update my twitter from this "Main Searchbox". It would also be great if you could access all your files that you store in the cloud from this search, just like you can do with Spotlight on Macs.

And then I found Quicksilver, which indeed does some of these things. But Quicksilver has its limitations. It only works on one OS, and when you switch computer it doesn't "follow" you. Also it's quite hard to write plugins for Quicksilver if you're not a skilled programmer.

So, my vision for this site/project is that you should be able to do basically anything, without having to leave the main menu.




So sort of like a command line for web services?


Yes actually. But with a graphical aid to make it (hopefully) more intuitive.




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