DEVONagent Express overview

DEVONagent Express (based on DEVONsphere) brings Web search directly to your menu bar. Just like Spotlight searches your computer, DEVONagent Express searches the Web and presents the results directly in its menu. A great selection of top-notch search engines and large tool tips with preview pictures and summaries let you find the right page before you open it in your Web browser. You can even query all three major Web search engines all at the same time or use pre-fab collections such as a thumbnail gallery search set.

Your search assistant: While the 'express' mode just collects the results the 'agent' mode does a lot more for you in the background. It downloads each page, filters advertisements, error pages as well as pages that don't fit your question, and applies its own ranking. No more Error 404 pages, no more pages that have nothing to do with your search at all.

Features

What DEVONagent Express does for you:
- Let's you search the Web as easy as using Spotlight
- Shows convenient summaries and preview pictures
- Filters advertisements and error pages
- Gives you only really relevant results back
- Talks to more than 80 general-purpose and specialized search engines
Perfectly integrated and easy to use:
- Located directly in the menu bar, always there when you need it
- Opens results in your Web browser or DEVONagent (if available)
- You already know how to use it
- Accessible by pressing a hotkey
Supported search engines categories:
- General purpose
- Apple- and Mac-related (e.g., App Store, MacUpdate)
- Blogs
- Computer science
- Dictionaries (e.g., Wiktionary)
- Directories
- Educational resources
- Government
- Images and videos (e.g., YouTube, Flickr)
- Legal
- News
- Patents
- References (e.g., Wikipedia)
- Science
- Social networking (e.g., Facebook profiles, Twitter)

What's new in version 3.11.11

This maintenance release includes many updates to plugins and search sets. These include several news outlets, e.g., Reuters, the PubMed site, the Latest Software search set, and even the plugin for our DEVONthink Server edition. Unfortunately, due to underlying changes on some sites, we had to remove some, notably Google-related ones. However, we now use multiple search engines for certain features to help ensure good results. Beyond that, we made many fixes and improvements to make our application more reliable and efficient.

New

Added Send anonymized analytics data to the Update settings. See our company's Privacy Policy page for more information on the data we may send.

Improved

The updated Web plugin improves support for Bing and now also uses Brave and Ecosia. We no longer use Google. (See the Removed section below.) We also improved filtering of Bing and Ecosia results.
We improved the compatibility of the DEVONthink Server plugin when using a self-signed certificate.
We updated the Marketing, Mac > Latest News, and Latest Software search sets.
The default maximum download size is 2 MB now.
We improved HTML parsing and conversion, e.g., while crawling pages.
We improved link filtering, especially from Brave Search results.
To prevent DEVONagent Express from being detected as "unusual activity", we employ better dynamic throttling on Bing and Brave searches.
A revised user-agent improves compatibility with Bloomberg feeds.

Fixed

Closing the preferences while a shortcut control was active could crash the application. Fixed.
The registration panel didn't immediately report success or failure after the trial period expired. Fixed.

Removed

Due to the use of JavaScript to present search results and blocking third-party access, we removed: Google News, Google (PDF), Images & Video > Google Video and YouTube, Blogs > Google Blog Search, Patents > Google Patents, and US Patent Office.

View older DEVONagent Express versions

3.8

(9 Reviews of DEVONagent Express)

Comments
User Ratings

Oak

May 5, 2014

0.5

Version: 3.8

I cannot erase the very first search I made with DE. Every time I fire this up, the first search always appears in the search window. This has the potential to be somewhat to extremely embarrassing, depending upon one's first search and who is standing by one's computer when one calls this up. What would be a five-star App gets one half star as a result of this

june8

Mar 26, 2013

3.4

5.0

Version: 3.4

Excellent search utility.

Surfspirit

May 28, 2012

3.2

Version: 3.2

Thank God this information is Wrong and it stills compatible with 32 bits OS/Macs

Funjoy

Jan 15, 2012

3.1.1

Version: 3.1.1

By far the easiest and fastest way to get smart/focused search results. Better than searching through pages of Google results (even if you know Goo search operators).

Slarkin

Dec 9, 2011

0.0

DEVONagent Express is a fine product, but the App Store is very problematic. I went there to update to 3.1.1 in my account and it tells me that all my apps are up to date. I go to DEVONtechnologies, LLC URL and no is no choice to update on their site and, of course, we can no longer update certain applications on MacUpdate. DEVONagent Express itself contains no updater. So what is one to do???? I have found the App Store to be so unlike anything the Steve Jobs envisioned or even a representative as an Apple product. This is not the first time that the App Store has been a problem for me, plus the last time I e-mailed them for support online, with the online acknowledgement that my e-mail was received, I never received a reply from the the App Store.

makareim

Jan 17, 2019

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