Use Quick.as & Extend Your Life By 15 Days

Set your homepage to Quick.as and save time online using "Command Search" and customizable "Quick Links."

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PRWEB) April 18, 2008 -- Quick.as (http://quick.as), launched today by Beep Interactive Pty. Ltd. It is a free and easy-to-use web site designed to save you time by making browsing and searching for information on the web quicker and easier. Get you to where you want to be on the web quick-as ... a-flash using:

1. Command search. In the search bar, put a "command" in front of your search term and it will search a different resource. E.g. "w Lebron James" will search Wikipedia for "Lebron James" while "gm Mt. Erica Hotel" will search Google Maps for the "Mt. Erica Hotel". There are hundreds of commands, and you can even add your own.

2. Quick Links. Once registered, you can add "Quick Links" (like bookmarks/favourites) to your most commonly visited sites. These might include your local newspaper, web based email providers (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail), social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace), online banking, your company Intranet, or any other site you visit frequently.

A Penn State research study (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2007.07.015) classified searches on the Internet as either:

• Informational - looking for a specific fact or topic;
• Transactional - looking for information related to buying a particular product or service; or
• Navigational - seeking to locate a specific web site (anecdotal evidence suggests that the people have five to ten web sites that they spend the vast majority of their time on).

To demonstrate how much time Quick.as can save you, let us assume you have just loaded your browser and you want to search for the movie, The Da Vinci Code on Amazon.

A "normal" search:

• Click on the address bar.
• Type in "www.amazon.com" and press enter.
• Wait for page to load.
• Click in the search box on the Amazon site.
• Type in "Da Vinci Code" and press enter.
• Wait for page to load.
• Scroll down until you come to the DVDs.
• 2 page loads
• 5 movements (e.g. mouse to keyboard)
• 7 seconds

• Type "am" and select the "Amazon DVDs" from the drop-down, continue typing "Da Vinci Code", and press enter.
• Wait for page to load.
• 1 page load
• 1 movement
• 2 seconds

• 5 seconds per search x 12 searches a day = 1 minute per day saved.
• 1 minute per day x 365 days per year = just over 6 hours per year saved.
• 6 hours per year x the next 60 years = 15 days per lifetime saved.
• Saving 15 days is just like adding 15 days to your life!!

• Command search allows to you to do:
• Measurement conversions (e.g. "convert 1m in feet").
• Time lookup (e.g. "time in Toronto")
• Currency conversion (e.g. "100USD in AUD")
• Dictionary and thesaurus lookups (e.g. "dictionary awesome")
• Stock quotes (e.g. "LON:VOD")
• As well as being able to search all the popular search engines you can search lots of popular sites like Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, IMDb, del.icio.us, Digg, Flickr, You Tube and many more.
• Your country is detected and, if it exists, you will be directed to a local version. For example, if you are in Australia and do a Google Maps search, the results will appear on maps.google.com.au.
• If registered and logged in, you can create your own search commands.
• You can choose to share your customized search commands and Quick links (e.g. http://example.quick.as).

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