{"id":282,"date":"2020-08-25T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/?p=282"},"modified":"2020-08-24T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:14:22","slug":"searching-the-web-far-and-wide-with-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/2020\/08\/searching-the-web-far-and-wide-with-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching the Web Far and Wide with Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a use case that got me addicted to application launcher style apps before Alfred even existed (back then Quicksilver was all the rage).<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take that long to Google something; you just go to an open browser window and type something in the address bar and hit Enter. If you&#8217;re savvy with your keyboard shortcuts you&#8217;ll know that <code>\u00e2\u0152\u02dcL<\/code> will focus your keyboard on the address bar so you don&#8217;t even need to lift a finger from the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>But that still takes a second, especially if you&#8217;re not in a browser right this minute.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred&#8217;s got you covered. Look no further than the Web Search feature:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CleanShot-2020-08-18-at-22.09.31@2x.png\" alt=\"alfred web search settings\" title=\"CleanShot 2020-08-18 at 22.09.31@2x.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"298\" height=\"122\"><\/p>\n<p>The best part: this doesn&#8217;t just work with Google; you can search just about any site on the web that supports search. You can jump right into a Google Image Search, for instance (my shortcut for that is <code>gim<\/code>), or search Amazon for something.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CleanShot-2020-08-18-at-22.12.16.gif\" alt=\"performing an Amazon search with Alfred\" title=\"CleanShot 2020-08-18 at 22.12.16.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"299\" height=\"209\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a use case that got me addicted to application launcher style apps before Alfred even existed (back then Quicksilver was all the rage). It doesn&#8217;t take that long to Google something; you just go to an open browser window and type something in the address bar and hit Enter. If you&#8217;re savvy with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alfred"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}