OK, I was scouring through Google's news alerts and came across this, ye ol' Google Deskbar. What does it do? Well, quite simply, the Google Deskbar adds a new toolbar to your Windows bar at the bottom of the screen that allows you to search Google without having to open Internet Explorer or Firefox. Here's the quote:
Google Deskbar enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard. Installs easily in your Windows taskbar.
The coolest part is that the toolbar even displays the results in a fancy little custom window, so it doesn't even have to launch a browser.
You can check out the Google Deskbar here, or head over to "Google's technology playground" and check out some of their other tools.
Posted by peter on September 02, 2004 at 01:07 AMA far more powerful application that does the same thing is Dave's Quick Search Taskbar
http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/doc.htm
It's all built using JavaScript and HTML so it's easy to customize, although it already has almost every possible search tool under the sun already built in. Highly recommended, spyware free.
Posted by: Jason at September 2, 2004 08:18 PM