There are some problems with the beta of OmniWeb. The auto form fillin is a little flakey and I think the application is trying to do to much threading and gets itself into a twist now and again. The being said, it is a very cool application. One of the cooler features is the ability to add extra sites to the search menu. If you use Safari then you know about the Google field right next to the URL edit field. You type a keyword in there, press return and it searches Google.
OmniWeb has the same thing but you can pick one of many different search engines to use. Actually the term search engine is inappropriate because some of the sites are very specific, like weather, or the W3C, or the Internet Movie Database. You can even add your own.
To make it even easier the OmniWeb guys have added a keyword feature. So that all you really have to do to search Google is type 'google', into the address field, followed by a space and then the search term and press enter. I edited the Google entry and shortened 'google' to just 'g'. I also added more sites; the C2 Wiki, the Code Generation Network, the CIA World Factbook, Feedster, Mutt Mansion, PHP Functions search, Froogle, Google Images, Google News, and the Wikipedia. Now searching all of these resources is at my fingertips. Love it.
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