[emacspeak The Complete Audio Desktop] In Praise Of The Google Search AJAX API

In Praise Of The Google AJAX Search API

Emacspeak has always provided Google Search with a single keystroke from anywhere on the audio desktop. But with the coming of the Google AJAX Search API it becomes possible to integrate Google Search at a far deeper level into your fingertips! The AJAX API demonstrates the true speed of Google Search, since you dont need to wait for an HTML page to download and render --- results are served as a light-weight JSON data structure.

What You Can Now Do

Module gsearch (part of the g-client package) provides an interactive command gsearch-google-at-point --- I have this bound to key hyper-/ in Emacs. Executing this command from anywhere inside Emacs does the following:

Grabs word under point, and prompts in the minibuffer for a search-term --- with the word we just grabbed as the default.
Fetches other relevant search terms in the background via Google Suggest, and makes these available via Emacs' minibuffer history mechanism. Use keys M-n and M-p to cycle through these if needed.
Hitting ENTER performs a Google Search using the AJAX API, and displays the title and content snippet for the first search result.
Executing command gsearch-google-at-point subsequently at the same location opens the first search result.

Search And Enjoy!

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