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# Quickgooglesilver?
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/quickgooglesilver/
- Published: 2006-03-15T02:46:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:34:53.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Technology

[](http://desktop.google.com/features.html?ref=chrismessina.me#quicksearch)As Google takes its privacy-exploding eponymous [Desktop Search](http://desktop.google.com/?ref=chrismessina.me) app [out of beta](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/stay-in-ctrl-ctrl.html?ref=chrismessina.me), it seems to have picked up an [idea](http://desktop.google.com/features.html?ref=chrismessina.me#quicksearch) or two from Nicholas Jitkoff's classic world-bending launcher, [Quicksilver](http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/?ref=chrismessina.me):

> Three months ago, I came up with an idea that makes it easier for users to find what they're looking for: a search box in the middle of the desktop. It's very accessible -- all you have to do is press your Ctrl key twice. After some experimentation, people are telling us they like it and use it.

[Tomas Gunnarsson, Google Desktop Software Engineer, ](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/stay-in-ctrl-ctrl.html?ref=chrismessina.me)[Official Google Blog](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/stay-in-ctrl-ctrl.html?ref=chrismessina.me)

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### 💬 Comments from the original post

**[C9](http://andy.ciordia.info/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2006-03-15 06:02:11

Quicksilver-eske but also very Spotlight. If you haven't tuned into Spotlights plugins recently their is an awesome one for del.icio.us.