Ease web searches with LaunchBar

21.01.2010

7. Enter Macworld (or whatever you desire) in the Name field, and then paste the URL you copied into the Details field.

8. Close the window and hit Return when prompted to save your changes.

Now whenever you want to run a search for anything on Macworld, all you have to do is invoke LaunchBar, type MW, press the Space Bar, type in your search query, and then press Return to open the results page in your default browser. It's a simple process, and greatly speeds up the task of searching through your frequented websites.

However, on some sites like IMDb and YouTube, the exact information you're looking for is generally the top hit among the search results. Wouldn't you rather be taken directly to those results when you search for something, rather than go through the additional step of clicking on the first item on a search results page? Using Google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature, I've devised a method to do just that.

Open the search templates screen in the LaunchBar Index again and add another entry to it. Enter the name of the site you want to search through in the Name field (The Internet Movie Database, for example) and then type the following URL into the Details field: