One of my favorite Safari hacks or add ons is free piece of software from Pozytron called Acid Search. Acid Search is a little enhancement that when installed it takes the Google search field in Safari and gives it more search options and search channels.
Through a pull down menu that appears in the Google field you can specify if you want to Google to search the whole web, just the site you are googling from, or it can Google for images. And if you not too nuts about Google you can even change the default search channel from Google to any one of a number of other search channels too.
In addition to all that is also allows you to choose what type of search you want to conduct with key board shortcuts and through Safari’s contextual menu when you in the body of a web page.
One word of caution though. Keep the uninstaller around because I recall when Apple’s Safari went from 1.0 to 2.0 all of a sudden a bunch of things started to go wrong for me an it was related to Acid Search which hadn’t been updated for that version change yet. That kind of thing can be expected from something that’s being offered out of the sheer generosity of the developer as freeware. But I also recall I hated being without it and couldn’t wait for the fix to happen so I could get back to using Acid Searches tools.
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