Provides commands for performing web searches using a variety of web services, from Amazon to Youtube to your Gmail account.
Enso Web Search Anywhere
It happens to the best of us: We’re in the middle of some task when we are struck with the burning desire to look up some arcane detail. What exactly is a liopleurodon? How heavy is the average kangaroo? And who was that actor who played the insurance salesman in the movie The Incredibles? Luckily, the Internet scratches our knowledge itches.
Enso Web Search Anywhere helps you to answer your burning questions as quickly as possible. Enso already lets you search Google by either selecting any text and starting to type google, or by typing google and then the term you want to search for. Now, with Web Search Anywhere, you can search Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon, Ebay, Internet Movie Database, Yahoo, Yubnub, your Gmail, and a host of other sites just by typing part of their name. No need for clunky pull-down menus or waiting for home pages to load before doing your search: Any search is only a few keystrokes away. Web Search Anywhere lets you procrastinate faster, easier, and more efficiently.
(Don’t know what an Enso command is? Then take this tour, or watch this related Enso Words demonstration.)
Procrastination aside, having the power of the most popular search engines at your beck and call is addicting. When your friend sends you their address, you just select it and say google-map. When you need to know how your favorite actor is connected to Kevin Bacon, you can imdb it. Got someone on the phone who wants to know when your plane comes in? Just gmail search for it. With Web Search Anywhere, there’s no fiddling with windows or waiting for pages to load—just go to exactly where you want to be.
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Enso Web Search Anywhere v0.1
Why Beta?
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Rukshan Jayaratna
September 16th, 2007 11:35 pm
on the product: Launcher
Why even “Open Firefox” !!
if open is the most commonly used command, I’d rather
press the capslock and type “firefox” I’d want it to be opening up.
Sifaan Zavahir
September 17th, 2007 12:13 am
Is it possible to add more search sites (e.g. amazon, ebay, etc)?
Can there be extensions (like for Firefox)?
If Enso could import firefox extensions it would be great!
/Sifaan
Mike Tomasello
September 17th, 2007 10:10 am
I’d like it if ‘Web Search Anywhere’ had a Google I’m Feeling Lucky search. It’s usually how I get to web-sites (via the Firefox address bar) so I have to take an extra step when I use ‘google [sitename]’ and have to click on the top result.
Of course the best enhancement would be the ability to add our own search commands by specifying a URL where the search term is replaced with ‘%1′ or something.
Mike
Varsoil
September 17th, 2007 10:53 am
Rather than creating the new google-define command, leverage the existing define command.
The addition of Google-define raises the issue of pluggable providers. How do you handle optional providers that may be added or removed? It should be done without clashing namespaces and without affecting previously-learned gestures. I propose the addition of a “using” phrase.
When applicable, a provider list pops under. (Just like the go command pops-under the list of open windows, the define command would pop-under a list of define-providers.) You can arrow down to select a provider or ignore them. The capability to ignore and use the default means the learned command keystrokes are not impacted by adding or removing providers.
Examples:
Define using google
Define foo using google
Define using google foo
Define foo
Define using enso foo
I would also like to see yellowpages or some other type of phone number lookup.
Varsoil
September 18th, 2007 3:44 pm
Mod to my previous post: keyword “with” instead of “using.” That is more consistent with the existing “open with application” command. “define with google.”
Jeffrey Morgan
September 19th, 2007 5:28 am
Is there any way to change which Amazon and Google site is searched? I prefer to search amazon.co.uk and google.co.uk.
Following similar lines as the recent Enso map command, it would be nice to see “google directions ‘enter address’” as a command. If we could setup a default “from” address that would be great.
Why wikipedia opens in local version (my system setting are Polish, I’d like however wikipedia to open in English version)? How can change the preferred locale?
Great app.
Why do you guys hate Firefox?
Would love to choose the browser from Preferences. Better yet, Enso could detect the browser, and open windows / (Tabs) depending on the browser selected/open.
prasun
February 18th, 2008 5:56 am
its great !!!
you have opened Pandora’s box.. we have so many “i wish” items now…hope you can cope up….
can you add support for clubbing 5-6 commands in one.
Can we set the default to say ‘open’, so that we dont have to type ‘open’
can we set the size of map, sometimes we need bigger maps..
can the commands maintain a histogram.. so that they show up in most used order
more will come…:)
thanks
Luka Ferlež
February 27th, 2008 4:56 am
When using Enso WebSearch function Wikipedia, the default setting is to search wikipedia for your country/language, in my case hr.wikipedia.org.
I would like the possibility to specify the default search local through the preferences web page, so that the my wiki queries go to the en.wikipedia.org instead of my local hr.wikipedia.org.
Otherwise brilliant tool
BigBonsai
May 3rd, 2008 10:01 am
A way to add a search of our own as mentioned before. The Opera browser shows how this can be done in a nice way. Any search engine can be added in this browser with ease. You implemented the most wiedely known, but there are others. Snap, Ixquick and more. I don’t think it would be very difficult to create a command or to build a little tutorial on how to add our own search engines.
Looking forward to those additions.
BiB
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