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Inquisitor 3: 2 weeks, 75,000 downloads

It’s been a mere 14 days since I first unveiled Inquisitor 3, the plugin for Safari that makes searching the web like using Spotlight, and announced that it would be completely free. The response has been fantastic, and I’m pleased to say that Inquisitor 3 has been downloaded more than 75,000 times in those 14 days.

So, let me take the time to thank everyone who has downloaded this beta software and help spread the word. 75,000 is great, but there’s still ~30 million Mac users out there who would love to hear about this, so keep it up. :)

  • November 11th, 2006 3:04 pm

30 comments...

Ink...

Congrats Dave, looking forward to seeing more awesome apps from you! :)


mini-d...

For sure, and by far this is one of the most practical non-obstrusive-small-software that a mac user can install. I still believe how much cool things you can do on the mac, while in the other worlds it takes ages to see this kind of improvements.

I’ve payed for NewFire and I didn’t changed since more than a year, that’s a good sign, since I’ve payed for another kind of software for mac and de-installed after a month or two. Just said that, keep the good work.


Dustin...

Congrats! Thats incredible.

Not surprising though since its such a great piece of software.


Eric...

Enjoying it myself, trying to recommend it to some friends as well:
http://echristo.blogspot.com/

I’ve also been pimping it here inside Apple to a bunch of people. I’m very much enjoying it and NewsFire.


Eric...

“~30 million Mac users ”

A lot of them are NOT english ! ;o)

Anyway, congratulations. This is a huge accomplishment.


Zachary...

That’s really good! Amazing how people flock to great OS X software!


Eduardo...

Hehehe! Congratulations! :)


evan...

Dave — I hope one day you get to meet Steve Jobs, if you haven’t already. But I hope when you do and after you introduce yourself that he says to you how much he loves and uses Inquisitor. It would be nice if Apple bought the rights to your product from you and you made millions off of it! You deserve it… Great work and congrats to all your success! – Evan


William...

Nice software.
Would be better if user can select to open result in different tabs instead of just the same window.


Brendan...

Inquisitor rocks. You’ve written another “Must Have” mac app.

One bug I’d like to see fixed is that while inquisitor pauses to access the search database, it doesn’t register characters from the keyboard. Too often my searches end up being something like “macinosh software”.


Joe...

I’m very impressed, but I’d like it if the suggestions view wasn’t constrained to the size of the search field… It’d be nice if it expanded out of the Safari window so I could see what’s in the results.


cameron...

I just want to know why Inquisitor isn’t a part of Safari yet???

The biggest drawback i found with Safari was the search box, and inquisitor not only fixed that, but actually made it better then firefox.

I use it everyday, all the time, and love it.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!


raul...

I’ve always touted Inquisitor as one of the the ‘must have’ Mac apps. Wonderful that it’s free now.

If I could make any suggestions for 3.01 it would be to allow the user to change the color scheme… At least with the current safari the very dark scheme feels less integrated than the former white scheme.


Jona...

I love Inquisitor so much! Thank you! Thank you! I have such awesome keyboard shortcuts for Google Images, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia. SO FAST!

I’ve noticed a great speed reduction when I have multiple tabs open. Anyone else? I’m using a MacBook 2GHz with 2GB of RAM and 10.4.8.

Again, thanks so much for Inquisitor!


Jorge...

Inquisitor is a very nice upgrade to Safari.

I have however two complaints:

– What is up with so many hits on “Search Amazon: [typed in keywords]”? That one is really irritating and I do not get where that is coming from. I removed Amazon from my additional search engines list, and neither google.com or the localized google.es (I’m from Spain) list that.

It is ridiculous that, for instance, looking up the word “Sony” gives as first result “Amazon.com: Sony” and only as a second one Sony.com. And searching manually in google.com does not show Amazon at all.

Did you hardcode that? Is that how Inquisitor got free? If it is, it would be nice if you mentioned it beforehand. In BIG letters. And let people choose if they want to support the development that way or simply not use the software at all.

If it is not, why am I getting different results (and specially Amazon.com results) when using Inquisitor than when using Google?

– The typing feedback is horribly slow sometimes. I am using a 2GHz G5, so typing speed should not be a problem (it shouldn’t be for whatever computer a decade old).

Anyhow, thanks.


chris...

simple, powerful, intuitive…everythig a mac app should be. Keep up the good work!


Jonathan...

Any chance of an install package so we can mass install via ARD?


Vince...

Dave, I bought and use Acquisition – a reliable P2P product. But I am an OmniWeb user rather than Safari. I really like the Inquisitor tool but would it work with OmniWeb?

I know that OmniWeb uses the same Webkit but….

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Vince


M-Rick...

I would really like to get Inquisitor in OmniWeb.


rick...

It’s a great app.. shame the history (clicking on the search down arrow) doesn’t work!


piero...

wow


Curtis...

Hi Dave,

Great work so far.

Any word on supporting multi-byte text (or more selfishly, Japanese) input?


Snow...

GREAT APP!

I would love to see that little black loop icon right next to Spotlight. Any chance that’s in the future? Google’s toolbar is clunky and ugly, while this is slick, nonobtrusive, and F-A-S-T.

Let me know?


Patrick...

3.x looks and works great, but I am quite disappointed that support for Camino has been discontinued. I actually paid for an earlier version (and also for Newsfire), but that was mostly because it worked with Camino.


John...

Would just like to add that having actually paid for Inquisitor mere days before it was released as freeware, you’d think I’d be annoyed or something. Quite the contrary: This is an absolutely terrific tweak to my workflow, and I’m more than happy to have contributed even a tiny bit. Thanks!


ekemtt...

That is good Softwere. But unluckily, we cannot fill with Japanese Words in the Searchbox… However, we could fill under Ver. 2.6.


soundman...

I have been using Scroogle, which is a proxy that uses Google search engine. Scroogle does not keep any user search logs over 48 hours. Am I to understand that Inquisitor keep no search logs?


Qleyo...

its a life line, I also use it for spell checking/confirming when writing notes on websites :p thank you!


ben...

not sure if I’m using it right, but the results seem to come up very slow for me – to the point where it’s faster to just go through with the google search manually. Am I doing something wrong???


Speed...

It is great that this works with Safari 3.0 but your download option is mac only (.dmg). Seeing as Safari is now availiable for Windows, is it possible to post a win-friendly file format for PC-only users?