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Inquisitor Vs Peers: The Search Wars Start Again
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Author: hac_a_mac
Forum: Software
Date: 2008-10-26

Inquisitor Vs Peers : The Search Wars Start Again

The Search Wars start again with a raging battle between Inquisitor and Peers, plug-ins those brought instant search feature in browsers. The first comer, Inquisitor recently spurred up support for Internet Explorer and Firefox while improving its strong base over Safari while Peers is constantly improving with Firefox. The previous Safari-only Inquisitor is looking forward towards its Firefox agenda hence directly clashing with reigning Peers in its own territory. Brawns apart, actually both of the plug-ins does provide the same functionalities of search-as-you-type internet search results from popular search engines like Google, Yahoo or other Opensearch supported sites like Wikipedia. Let’s take a quick look at both the tools before directly pitting each against another.

Inquisitor was originally developed by David Watanabe for Safari which is the default browser for Apple Mac OS X operating systems. The Cocoa based application can perfectly blend into Safari, replacing the dull Google search bar with search-as-you-type space offering blazingly fast results from a preferred search engine. Now Yahoo came into business this year and got the license of this nifty piece of software. This week, they made Inquisitor available for Internet Explorer and Firefox also.

Peers comes from Jan Bolz and Daniel Sachse and only available for Firefox. The instant search feature is present in Firefox 3 through its Awesome Bar and can instantly sort items through saved bookmarks and previously visited pages from browser history. Still, the Awesome Bar can’t search internet this way and there comes Peers to rescue. Peers can be a perfect companion to Awesome Bar, adding its instant search feature to the Bar. So with Peers installed, one can easily search through Internet right from the Awesome Bar much like Google Chrome address bar. But that’s not all, Peers is still a highly customizable piece of software on its own. Peers can detect and use the already added Search Providers in Firefox search bar and adding more from Opensearch enabled websites is real smooth, just like a piece of cake. Search results in Peers dropdown menu stars with the related keywords whenever available followed by links from selected search engine, browser history and options to search with other search engines.

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Downloads

Inquisitor : http://www.inquisitorx.com
Peers: http://www.peersbros.com