Today I was poking around to see if there were any new developments in QuickSilver, and came across a pointer to Google “Quick Search Box” for Mac. It is very early in development, but looks promising. Another interesting point is that the the author of QuickSilver is working on the Google QSB, so it is probably a safe bet that they want to make QSB to be the successor to QuickSilver itself.
Like QuickSilver, QSB will find and launch apps. It even does very limited actions on apps. QSB has not reached the point were it will do things like open Gmail in a tab, and start composing a message yet, but I would guess that this kind of thing is being worked on. For the next couple of days I will poke at it to see how well it works and if it has the possibility to replace QuickSilver down the road.
