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title: "No More Searchling?"
date: 2003-03-17T13:40:51-05:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/03/17/no-more-searchling/
author: Les Orchard
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# No More Searchling?

So, as I'm working to recover all the old tools I knew and loved on my
iBook, I see this on the
<a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mthole/searchling/" target="_top">Searchling home page</a>:
<blockquote><i>Work on Searchling has ceased to focus on its successor
-- iSeek.</i></blockquote>
...and there are no downloads for searchling available, neither binary
nor source.  Harumph!  
<br /><br />
And the screenshots of iSeek don't please me much -- I see a search
field wodged into the menu bar in place of the nice, slick ghostly
search field that would materialize with a quick Cmd-Space or a click
of the magnifying glass.  Gagh.  My menu bar's already crowded enough
with <strong>menu entries</strong> on this 12" screen as it is.
<br /><br />
But, if I'm completely wrong, and there ends up being a feature to
make iSeek work and feel just like my old friend the Searchling...
well, then I say congratulations to its author for cobbling together a
saleable lil widget, and I'll be waiting impatiently for its release.
:)
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<div id="comments" class="comments archived-comments">
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://members.tripod.co.jp/no_no_no/Searchling/Searchling.html"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=86fd81238d60ae360cc6d0ea63ab2e30&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://members.tripod.co.jp/no_no_no/Searchling/Searchling.html">Ryan Schwartz</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090350" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-03-18T19:38:01">2003-03-18T19:38:01</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Click that link and download the version there. It's v1.1b(v110). That is hit#6 for google:Searchling 1.1 : )</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://ryanschwartz.net"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=6baa0cd568969e85125d824f4bcd104e&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="http://ryanschwartz.net">ryan</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090351" class="permalink"><time datetime="2003-03-19T11:12:41">2003-03-19T11:12:41</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Boy I suck at these comments. Click this link to download Searchling 1.1 from a Japanese site. This came up as hit #6 on google for Searchling 1.1. :-D</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar image" rel="nofollow" 
                       href=""><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=48a097eb39f4d695a2363e12411c1c1d&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png"/></a>
                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
                       href="">Richard White</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090352" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-04-27T22:25:55">2004-04-27T22:25:55</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Re: Searchling is now open source. The developer who worked on it has it posted on his .Mac page:

http://homepage.mac.com/tophu/Searchling.dmg</div>
            
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