Google Suggest Workflow for Alfred 2
The Google Suggest workflow allows you quickly and easily find search suggestions from Google.com. These suggestions will match the same results that you would get if you were executing a query on Google’s search page. Go ahead and try it out.
Changes
3/22/13 – Fixed typo in the Workflow description
3/22/13 – Added default option to search the exact entered text instead of only suggestions.
I'm David Ferguson, Alfred Guru, programmer, and general nerd. I was recently added as an official member of the
David,
thanks for your workflows. I learned from Chrome bookmarks how to write one for Firefox, cf. https://github.com/nikipore/alfred-firefoxbookmarks.
I ran into encoding issues with special characters (try “Müller”), which I finally solved by normalizing the UTF-8 input coming from the Mac console. Now I see that your plugins suffer from the same problem. Would you mind to have a look at that?
What controls the order of results? The uid or the order in the XML?
Thanks,
Jan
The uid if they have never been actioned, but once they have, Alfred’s knowledge will begin to tweak that as well. So ones you’ve selected before will begin to appear on top. I’ll take a look at it when release stuff simmers down
Awesome; thanks!!! Anyway that picking one of the items could go right to the website. Perhaps by cmd+enter?
Thanks again for your awesomeness!
That would providing actual search results or using the I’m feeling lucky search instead of doing just a google search. The I’m feeling lucky could probably work. Getting googles live search results are tough if not impossible
This is amazing. You’re amazing!
Is there a way to make this the default behaviour for Alfred’s Google search? I mean, I enter “domates” into Alfred, and if it can’t find an app or a file by that name, or containing that word, switches to Google search with suggestions.
It’s tricky even explaining it here, so I assume it ain’t possible, but just asking.
Sounds like you essentially want it as one of the fallback searches but no you can’t set it as a fallback unfortunately. Glad you like it
This is what Alfred’s all about! Is there any way I can force it (perhaps through a hotkey like cmd-enter) to search for my exact query and disregard the autocomplete? For example, if I’d like “g window” to Google “window” instead of “windows live mail” which is the first autocomplete result. Thanks for your time.
If you have Google setup as your default fallback search then yes. Under the Advanced prefs, right column, you can set modifier keys to perform different actions on results. If you set Cmd+Enter to “Search with default web search” then you could have exactly what you are asking for.
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks and keep up the great work!
Actually now that I’ve been using this I’m wondering if there’s a way to simply Google the query with enter instead of using a hotkey modifier (i.e. have the raw query as the first item) and have the autocomplete suggestions listed below. This would precisely mimic Google’s search bar and I think I’d prefer it. Any way to edit the workflow’s code to make this possible?
This feature was added just the other day. Redownload the workflow to get this feature
Much appreciated man! This is exactly what I was imagining. Thanks for bringing us the power of autocomplete without having to type google.com in our address bars ever again.
This feature was added the other day, download and reinstall the workflow
wonderful work. I was wondering if you could extend the functionality to include searching for maps and images?
also, there always seems to be a duplicate suggestion. eg if i type ‘eggs’ it shows up twice.
keep up the great work!
The very first item works as somewhat of a fallback so that if you don’t see a suggestion you like, the first item will allow you to search the exact entered text