A major update for KwiClick is now available for download and includes a number of items that we’ve been working on for the past few months. This update includes:
Site Specific Search Provider – add any site into KwiClick for immediate searching.
Country specific searching – Would you rather use KwiClick to search on Google.es, Google.fr, or any of the other local country search engines Google provides? Now you can.
Reorganized options panel – We made the options panels a bit easier to navigate by further grouping similar items together, and removing redundant items.
Default provider is first favorite - Whenever you drag a provider to the lest most position on the favorites bar, it becomes the default provider. Much easier to assign a default this way.
New dictionary provider – Highlight a word and get the definition with a single click. Easy. Straight-forward.
There are also a number of other tweaks and enhancements under the hood that should make for a smoother experience.
Got some feedback on this update? Let us know about it in the comments or our community forum.
It’s been a while since we’ve rolled out an update and I think you’ll like what we have coming out shortly. In this post I’m going to detail out a feature we’re calling Site Specific Search Providers (or S3P for short).
One of the most requested items that we hear from users is the ability to use KwiClick with sites not included in the application. This presented a challenge and also an opportunity for us. Each search provider that ships with KwiClick has been specifically configured to pull data (when searching) from a particular site. When you use the YouTube provider, we return results with a thumbnail image, the view count, the title, and some additional information. When you use the Google search provider, we show a list a search results similar to how Google.com shows their results.
In order to achieve a method of displaying search results from “any” site out there we needed to decide upon a result style format that would be suitable for a wide variety of sites. So we’ve gone ahead and used the Google result set as the standard style format for this new feature. In fact, Google powers this new feature. Here’s what I mean: You can construct a search on Google.com that only pulls in results from a specific site by entering the following into Google: site:cnn.com baseball
This type of search will restrict the results to just cnn.com and search for “baseball”. We’ve taken this concept and baked it right into KwiClick. When you are browsing a site that you’d like to add into KwiClick as a search provider, you can simply click the Site Search icon: 
You can access this icon through the Search Clovers and from the favorites toolbar which sits on the bottom of the KwiClick panel. After clicking the icon, a search will be triggered in KwiClick which restricts the results to just the site you are currently on. You’ll also see a notification to save the site for later use: 
When you click Yes, the site search provider will be saved and instantly added to your favorites toolbar (which you can remove or rearrange from the options panel).
That’s it! A couple of clicks and you’ve got yourself a new search provider. If you decide to click No, a site search provider will not be created. It’s a good way of running a search on a particular site that you probably won’t use in the future.
A couple of things we wanted to avoid when designing this feature:
1) Don’t make anyone copy and paste any url or long strings.
2) Don’t make anyone search for specific words in a form and look for certain code to add into KwiClick (what a pain!).
3) Make this as simple as possible, with as few steps as possible.
This is just one of the many features we’re preparing to roll out shortly.
