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Hack 26 The Quick Search ToolbarWhy do you have to even launch your browser to search Google? This tool lets you searchGoogle and over 100 other search engines from your Windows status bar.Why should you have to launch a browser to get access to Google's over 2 billion pages' worth ofinformation? You don't. If you want to go about as far beyond the browser as you can go withoutactually leaving the computer, check out Dave's Quick Search Deskbar(http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/doc.htm), shown in Figure 1-18.This is a quick little download, all of 322K. You'll need to have Windows 95 or better and IE 5.5or later to use it. Once you've downloaded and installed it, right-click your mouse on the Windowstaskbar at the bottom of your screen and choose Toolbars Add Quick Search.Figure 1-18. Dave's Quick Search Deskbar26.1 Basic Browser UseThe Quick Search tool is a veritable Swiss Army knife of functions, but we'll start with the basics;enter a query in the box and hit the enter key on your keyboard. Your default browser will pop upthe Google result page.The complicated stuff isn't that much more complicated. To go directly to the first hit of a result(using Google's I'm Feeling Lucky feature) add an exclamation point to your search:"washington post"!Make sure the exclamation point is on the outside of a phrase (i.e., isn't contained within thequotes) or it won't work. You can, of course, add the exclamation point to the end of a multipleword query: