Copyright 2010 Nick Zitzmann.
MultiSeeker is a Dashboard widget (for Mac OS X) and Sidebar gadget (for Windows) that makes it easy to submit search queries to a number of popular search engines on the Web. MultiSeeker has a special focus on privacy and security; it will use TLS/SSL to encrypt your queries wherever it is possible to do so, and it will never remember your search queries.
The current version supports securely querying the following search engines:
The following sites are also supported, however, queries will not be submitted securely because these sites do not support TLS/SSL (and have a ! next to their names to indicate they are insecure):
* Although MultiSeeker will submit these search queries securely, these sites have been known to return insecure results. There's nothing I can do about this. You'll have to wait for these sites to enhance their SSL services.
** You must have a Facebook account, and be logged into your Facebook account in your default browser, to search Facebook. The site will most likely ask you to log in first if you have not already done so.
*** If you are outside of the United States, then Google may redirect you to a non-secure results page. At the time of this writing, Google has yet to roll out SSL on their international sites.
MultiSeeker requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, or Windows Vista or later. Because it was written entirely using HTML/CSS/JavaScript rather than a compiled language, it is a "universal binary" even though it's not really a binary.
MultiSeeker is licensed to you under the terms of the Modified BSD License, so feel free to read and modify the code on your own.
Download MultiSeeker for Mac OS X (Comcast)
Download MultiSeeker for Windows (right-click here and choose "save as") (Comcast)