Dave's Quick Search Deskbar allows you to search with Google and many of other search engines directly from the taskbar:
By default it uses the standard Google web search but there are tons of shortcuts to find what you want faster. The list of 324 supported searches is too long to write down here but some example are:
- Internet Movie Database: Imdb search
- Yahoo: yh search
- eBay: % search
- Tom's Hardware: thw search
- domain info: dns search
- How far is it between two towns: howfar /Paris France /Milan Italy
Some other neat features:
- Drag and drop any text to do an instant search on Google
- Instant translation: great en-it
Colissimo!