Filed under: Macintosh, Yahoo!, Search, Browsers
Inquisitor 3.2 adds languages and improves performance
A few months back, Download Squad's Danny Mendez wrote about Yahoo!'s acquisition of popular Safari InputManager Inquisitor. At the time, Danny was worried that Yahoo's purchase would make the tool unusable with other search engines, but those fears were unfounded, and Inquisitor continues to work well with either Google OR Yahoo.Inquisitor is cool because it adds Spotlight-like functionality to the default Safari search box (it's kind of like the Awesome Bar for Firefox 3), along with easy access to other search results from places like Flickr or IMDB or Wikipedia. The design is also utterly kick-ass.
In the new release, users who choose to use Yahoo! search engine will see much, much faster results, thanks to integration with Yahoo's new BOSS platform. Like, instantaneously fast. Like, fast enough to make me consider changing my default search engine fast.
Inquisitor now supports eight languages in addition to English: Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.
The interface has also become more streamlined and looks really, really great.
Inquisitor is free and available for Mac's running OS X 10.4 and up.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Max said 4:29PM on 8-13-2008
Now, if only he could extend this to work in OmniWeb as well.
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Tom said 5:15PM on 8-13-2008
It'd probably be easier for him to extend to firefox, and I hope he does.
David Watanabe said 4:35PM on 8-13-2008
Thanks Christina, I'm glad you like the design. :)
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Quikboy said 8:12PM on 8-13-2008
Any chance for a Windows version? That works on IE, FF, and Opera too?
I'd really love to try Inquisitor out.