Also the built-in search utility for all Apple Mac OS computers since Mac OS 8.0. Allows the user to search within documents for any referenced volume, and to act as a meta-search front end into many internet resources including most search engines and people finders. Actually pretty cool, my Windows friends often hang around my PowerBook when they're having trouble researching some new Windows bug. They know the little Mac will save them a whole lot of time.

Sherlock search plugins are also supported with some limitations (notably that they only support sites which use the GET rather than POST method of passing parameters) in Mozilla and related browsers, including Phoenix; the canonical source for open source plugins for this purpose is http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ (Mycroft being, of course, Sherlock Holmes' brother).

What follows is a very basic Sherlock plugin designed to search E2 from the search bar in Phoenix; I have no idea what it is likely to do in other browsers with search sidebars and the like (but you can always tell me). It is not sufficiently developed to be fit for the official Mycroft site, but it works for me.

# E2 Sherlock for Mozilla/Phoenix
# by Albert Herring
# Last modified 20 Jan 2003

<search
   name="Everything2"
   description="Find a node on everything2.com" 
   action="http://everything2.com/index.pl"
   searchForm="http://everything2.com/index.pl"
   method="GET" >

<input name="node" user >
<input  name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">

<interpret	

	resultListStart="<!-- BEGIN contained stuff -->"
	resultListEnd="<!-- END contained stuff -->"
>
</search>

To install it, cut and paste that code into a file called e2.src in the /searchplugins subdirectory of the directory in which Mozilla or Phoenix is installed. You will also need an icon; a 16x16 bitmap of your choice in jpg, gif or png format with the same name as the source code (i.e. e2.gif, e2.jpg or e2.png). If you are really desperately short on inspiration and/or any way of creating such an image, here's a very mediocre one in uuencoded form - save it as e2.uue and decode it using uudecode or Winzip or something:

begin 766 e2.png
MB5!.1PT*&@H````-24A$4@```!`````0"`(```"0D6@V````"7!(67,``!<1
M```7$0'*)O,_````@DE$051XG&-@,$XC#0U_#06]E@?.2O[_SP!$&P[(*_A$
M$M``5#=AF0Z081`9#-%&@I-(TP"T!Z@ZH-@-H4'!IW+#@0O___^_<.NQ0UH/
M=M7(GCYP]A90M8!#`40/S)1(B*>AJI$U_$<%R.Y&J$;6`#05J`[H,$R/(B,L
<?D!VTD`D#0"%MN-:^^&:/P````!)14Y$KD)@@@``
`
end      

Bug reports, suggestions for improvements or explanations of why I have been very stupid welcome.