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DEVONagent Express is fairly self-explanatory and its menu can be used in the much the same way as the Spotlight menu: Click the DEVONagent Express icon in the righthand area of the menu bar to show the DEVONagent Express menu with the search field. Choose where you want to search using the magnifying glass pop-up menu in the search field. The chosen plugin or search set is shown in front of the search field. Enter your query. Press ↩ or Enter. DEVONagent Express now sends your query to the selected search engine(s), collects the results, and shows them ranked in the menu. A colored bar in the search field shows search progress. Point with the mouse at any result to show a tooltip with a preview and a text summary. Click the result to open it in your browser. Hold the ⌥ or ⌘ modifier key to open results in your browser in the background. Drag results to the Desktop or other applications. Dragging to the Desktop creates bookmarks (.webloc); dragging to other applications inserts the web address. Navigate through the list with the Up and Down keys, and press ↩ or Enter to open the result in your browser. Recall recent searches or recently used plugins or search sets from the magnifying glass pop-up menu. Click the to clear your search.
Note: Plugins return up to 20 results, match title, URL, and text, don't filter similar pages, and accept all document types. Simple plugins don't follow links, search language-independent, and don't use fuzzy search. Umlauts are ignored, archived pages are not filtered (as there is no archive in DEVONagent Express, and scanners are only used by the built-in search sets. If you want to tweak your search consider buying DEVONagent.