DEVONagent Express for Mac
Web search from the menu bar.
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DEVONagent Express overview
DEVONagent Express (based on DEVONsphere) brings Web search directly to your menu bar. Just like Spotlight searches your computer, DEVONagent Express searches the Web and presents the results directly in its menu. A great selection of top-notch search engines and large tool tips with preview pictures and summaries let you find the right page before you open it in your Web browser. You can even query all three major Web search engines all at the same time or use pre-fab collections such as a thumbnail gallery search set.
Your search assistant: While the 'express' mode just collects the results the 'agent' mode does a lot more for you in the background. It downloads each page, filters advertisements, error pages as well as pages that don't fit your question, and applies its own ranking. No more Error 404 pages, no more pages that have nothing to do with your search at all.
Features
- What DEVONagent Express does for you:
- Let's you search the Web as easy as using Spotlight
- Shows convenient summaries and preview pictures
- Filters advertisements and error pages
- Gives you only really relevant results back
- Talks to more than 80 general-purpose and specialized search engines
- Perfectly integrated and easy to use:
- Located directly in the menu bar, always there when you need it
- Opens results in your Web browser or DEVONagent (if available)
- You already know how to use it
- Accessible by pressing a hotkey
- Supported search engines categories:
- General purpose
- Apple- and Mac-related (e.g., App Store, MacUpdate)
- Blogs
- Computer science
- Dictionaries (e.g., Wiktionary)
- Directories
- Educational resources
- Government
- Images and videos (e.g., YouTube, Flickr)
- Legal
- News
- Patents
- References (e.g., Wikipedia)
- Science
- Social networking (e.g., Facebook profiles, Twitter)
What’s new in version 3.11.9
In this latest release, we've enhanced the filtering and parsing of search results, making it easier to find what you're looking for. In addition, we've fixed a number of problems, including eliminating a bug that could cause crashes during searches. As always, we've worked hard to enhance the overall performance and reliability of the application.
NOTE: Starting with version 3.11.9, DEVONagent Express now requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
NEW
- When manually checking for updates, the alert shows a Release Notes button if no updates are available.
Improved
- Plugin updated: MacUpdate.
- Search sets updated: Mac > Latest News.
- Improved filtering of several inputs: non-article Wikipedia pages, Bing search results, and social media links, e.g., for tweeting or sharing.
- Plugins having unspecified or unmatched tags or text ranges more reliably parse HTML pages.
- Indexing, crawling, and converting HTML pages ignores more hidden elements.
Fixed
- Entering incorrect wildcards in a search could crash the application. Fixed.
- Complex searches including wildcards, proximity operators, and parentheses didn't work correctly. Fixed.
Removed
- Clinical Trials plugin.
DEVONagent Express for Mac
$4.95
In English
Version 3.11.9
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User Ratings
May 5 2014
Version: 3.8
I cannot erase the very first search I made with DE. Every time I fire this up, the first search always appears in the search window. This has the potential to be somewhat to extremely embarrassing, depending upon one's first search and who is standing by one's computer when one calls this up. What would be a five-star App gets one half star as a result of this
May 28 2012
Version: 3.2
Thank God this information is Wrong and it stills compatible with 32 bits OS/Macs
Jan 15 2012
Version: 3.1.1
By far the easiest and fastest way to get smart/focused search results. Better than searching through pages of Google results (even if you know Goo search operators).
Dec 9 2011
Version: 3.1.1
DEVONagent Express is a fine product, but the App Store is very problematic. I went there to update to 3.1.1 in my account and it tells me that all my apps are up to date. I go to DEVONtechnologies, LLC URL and no is no choice to update on their site and, of course, we can no longer update certain applications on MacUpdate. DEVONagent Express itself contains no updater. So what is one to do????
I have found the App Store to be so unlike anything the Steve Jobs envisioned or even a representative as an Apple product. This is not the first time that the App Store has been a problem for me, plus the last time I e-mailed them for support online, with the online acknowledgement that my e-mail was received, I never received a reply from the the App Store.
