Now, this is something which I have found useful recently and I thought i’d share with you just in case you weren’t aware of it.

Firstly, you should know you can search any site with quicksilver simply by visiting the site (with Safari), typing “***” (without the “) into the search space on the site and then bookmarking the results page with whatever name you want to type in quicksilver to search the site.

For example, to search amazon.com:

1. Visit Amazon.com with Safari and search for ***

2. The results page should be this

3. Then bookmark this page and call it Amazon Search.

4. Now bring up Quicksilver and ensure you rescan your catalog. Give it 20-30 secs or so and then type “Amazon Search”, press tab, then tab again and type “.” (without the “) to allow you to type what you’re wanting to search for and search for “AnyItemOnAmazon”.

5. Voila.

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NOW TO SEARCH GMAIL…it’s a little more tricky as you’ll find that gmail doesn’t change it’s url when you search for anything inside it.

So, you’ll need to do the following (if you’re using gmail.com):

1. Type : http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=*** into Safari

2. Bookmark the results page and call it something like “Gmail Search”

3. Bring up Quicksilver using your launch shortcut - rescan your catalogue

4. Type “Gmail Search” (without the “), press tab, tab again and then “.” to enable the text space and type whatever it is you’re wanting to search for.

5. Done Diddy

ps. If you’re using google apps for your domain, this is the url you need to bookmark:

mail.google.com/a/XYZ.COM/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=***