Chris Lawley featured this app on a recent YouTube post, and it sounded a bit like creating search indices in Launchbar, but something that would work on iPadOS. Which it does!

Usually, switching search engines means changing the setting for your browser, or navigating to the search’s homepage. The advantage of using something like Launchbar or Raycast to conduct searches is you can switch the engine with a couple of keystrokes.

Xsearch is a Safari extension that interprets characters inputted into the search bar as switches. Depending upon how you set it up, this can search google:

G what’s a good book to read?

Will search google, while

ddg what's a good book to read?

Will search the same in Duck Duck Go. It’s very cool and cheap to boot. It makes me wonder what else you might be able to do with this kind of extension.

Here’s a quick video of what it looks like on iPadOS:

Xsearch on the App Store