It was just two days ago when I noticed that we were getting referrals from a certain Keyboardr.com. My curiousity got the better of me (as it always does when checking out stats) and I landed on this brilliant search site, keyboardr. 

Keyboardr is not a search engine by itself. It is basically an meta-search of Google, Google-Blogs, Google-Images, Youtube, and Wikipedia in one single page. Nothing new, we’ve seen this done before. However this is the first time I have seen something like this that actually works. Typing a search term immediately generates a result, much like spotlight does. You can then navigate the results with your keyboard and hit enter to open the link up. 

So what does this have to do with Apple? Well looking at the design and seeing how it works, I knew it had a Mac behind the scenes. So I contacted the team, and lo-and-behold, Julius Eckert replied! Who is Julius Eckert? I thought you’d never ask. He’s the same guy who made those Quicksilver user interface HUDs (Showcase and Silverflow) with slick effects based on core animation. And he made them just 3 months after he bought his first Mac in December 2007!

Keyboardr is not only created with a MacBook its also inspired by the Apple. Even IE testing has been done on the macbook (via fusion).

For the future we have big plans for keyboardr. keyboardr will utilize much more webservices. Among from usual websearch services like google, we are planning to support friendfeed, delicious, twitter, flickr, google docs and many more. And in the final stage, we will have an extension system, open for any developer, to integrate any webservice into our interface. So keyboardr will be a central station for you to get all your common internet tasks done much faster.

Any chance we will have Inquisitor like integration with the Safari browser? I sure hope so. Head over to keyboardr.com to check out this awesome search engine. If you want to have a look at Julius’s other projects, including the Quicksilver HUDs, take a look at his website.