Google Quick Search Box makes searching on Mac a snap. It can be claimed as a Quicksilver or Spotlight alternative (loosely claimed)

Unlike Windows, Mac has quite a barrage of search utilities. In fact it comes with a fantastic search tool Spotlight built-in. Sometimes that’s not enough and then came Quicksilver and an army of similar tools.

Now it’s Google’s turn and they came up with Google Quick Search Box. It’s a snappy little application that’s light-weight and does the job pretty well (what else can you expect from a search giant?)

Download and install Google Quick Search Box. Once you launch it, it shows up as a little search box in the middle of the screen.

All you have to do it just start typing-in what you want to find into the box and Google Quick Search Box will instantly find matching results for your query and as standard Mac applications do it organizes the results in a way for you to easily distinguish.

If you notice at the bottom of the search results box that when you scroll over the results it tells you the path of the result item by, again, following the Mac standard breadcrumb.

Either if you’d prefer to change the color of the Google Quick Search Box so that you can see better on a cluttered screen or if you would prefer to change the keyboard shortcut to invoke Quick Search Box then you have to go into the “Preferences” dialog to adjust these settings. Particularly I found the shortcut of double-pressing the Command key a bit more convenient when I use the laptop in darkness so I don’t have to look for another key combination.

Even though it’s not Quicksilver Google’s Quick Search Box does a decent job of what it claims it can do. I would say it can be a decent Spotlight alternative. If you find it useful in any specific way please let us know in comments.

Download Google Quick Search Box.

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