For years I used to funk around looking for new applications and plug-ins to make my Mac go faster or look snazzier. Funnily enough, though, when I started this blog, I stopped the mindless searching and fine tuning for my own ends and limited myself to the occasional software review for my readers benefit.

Kicking around for 5 minutes yesterday I decided it was time to break the habit of a blog lifetime and go geeky again for my own pleasure, so I went to Versiontracker to seek out some ways to spice up browsing the web on Safari. Despite a lot of extra Safari info, my tweaking started and finished with Inquisitor, a funky Web 2.0 search plug in.

Wot is Inquisitor?

Basically, as you type a search term, Inquisitor turns up all sorts of related search terms, reading your mind. It seems more like it is trying to change your mind, because as you type, it shows words and terms you never dreamt of.

For instance, in my mind I was searching HELP, but as I typed at my normal 34 words an hour, it turned me onto Heroes, then Hello Kitty. By the time I had looked through Hello Kitty's site, I forgot what i was looking for, and decided to write this post instead.

It is free, artsy and works with Yahoo search as default. Apparently you can use Google too. Buggered if I know how, but there you go. Looks sweet doesn't it?



And it found The Pisstakers, so all in all, a neat improvement on the standard fare for searching.