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2009-10-03 , 20:13
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Just a warning, BrentDC:

You can put web page bookmarks on your desktop, too. So it is fairly straightforward to put bookmarks to your favorite search engines / reference pages on the desktop, and then just press the bookmark to get the search page. So you need to make something about your widget that is more compelling or convenient than that.

I understand, but I've got a few things going for me:

1) Speed. It takes twice as long to load two web-pages as it does one. For example, let's say I want to search Ebay and have a shortcut on my desktop for ebay.com. I could click the shortcut and wait for ebay to load, then enter my query in the field and hit search. With the widget, I could select to search ebay and search it without having to load anything extra. This could also be useful if you are paying for data usage.

2) Convenience. It is all there. You don't have to create a bunch of shortcuts, just download the software and the functionality is there.

3) Space. Say there are fifteen sites I search on a regular basis. Well, 15 shortcuts take up a lot of desktop space, while my applet is always the same relatively small size (say, twice a shortcut) if it's fifteen sites I like to search or 50.

4) Finger-friendliness. How many websites have finger friendly search bars? Not so many. My applet is "designed with fingers in mind".
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