I’m sure that these were added to my index automatically when I upgraded to whichever version of LaunchBar introduced them… I probably assumed “I don’t want any of this!” and got rid of them. The actions for Google, Wikipedia, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary (and possibly others) offer live, autocompleting search results. (Note that you’ll only be able to add these default actions back into your index if you had previously removed them.) Unique Features of LaunchBar: Get live search suggestions as you type and use templates to search specific websites. This will add a long list of actions to your index, which you can then rename or disable as you please. Select Actions → Actions from the menu that opens.Click on the Add button in the top left of the window.Open the Index by typing Command-Option-I (that’s the letter “eye”).Yesterday I discovered that it is possible to get the autocompleting templates back LaunchBar just calls them “actions,” not “search templates.” To add them to your configuration, You can set your own text shortcuts for Google, Google Images, Google Maps, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, Ask Jeeves, and many more. Hitting & SpaceBar, followed by goo and then the return key will bring up a search box for Google. I tried various times to re-add the list of “factory search templates,” which I assumed held the magical versions of the search templates that supported autocomplete, but to no avail-the new list of search templates didn’t even include Wikipedia or Google. Another simple use of the application which I use daily is the inbuilt search templates. My home LaunchBar installation, which I’ve been migrating from computer to computer since version 4, did not give suggestions like this. At some point I noticed that my work LaunchBar installations-which started over with a fresh configuration every few years-were showing me autocomplete suggestions as I typed in queries for Wikipedia and Google: I’ve been using LaunchBar for many years, both on my own laptop and on my work machines.
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