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Speed your Google Desktop Search with Firefox

This is a really nifty extension of Firefox using keyword shortcuts and a simple url hack to speed searching of your desktop. Give it a try:

1. Launch Google Desktop Search
2. Type someting into the search field and click Search Desktop. I'm going to search for Frogs. Doesn't matter if you have any files with Frogs in the text, the only thing that matters is the URL that gets returned.
3. When your results come back, bookmark the page!
4. Now Click Bookmarks - Manage Bookmarks
5. Find the Frogs bookmark you just made and either right click on it or click Edit - Properties
6. Change the name field to read "Google Desktop Search"
7. Look through the Location URL for the word Frogs the URL will look like http://127.0.0.1:4664/search&s=2749441201?q=frogs&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Desktop
8. Replace the word frogs with "%s" (no quotes)
9. In the keywords field, enter "gds" (no quotes)
10. Click Ok

Now when you want to search your desktop for lets say Cookies, go to the Address Field of Firefox (yes, the place you usually type in http://blahblahblah.com) and simply type "gds Cookies" and you will start a search of your desktop for any file containing the word Cookies.

By the way, you can create these for regular Google too. Start off the steps above with a Web search instead of a desktop search.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 01, 2004 at 5:03 PM.