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Well, not quite. It really goes to Ian Henderson's delimport. Simply put, it imports all your del.icio.us bookmarks to (Mac OS X) Spotlight.

I already tried that before with Quicksilver, but it ended up getting in my way by polluting my search results: even if I wanted to just quickly launch some application (Firefox, for example), it would search through all my 2000+ bookmarks and show me all the Firefox-related ones.

delimport has some advantages:

1. It tries not to pollute your results by updating the dates only when your reopen some URL; i.e.: as it doesn't re-import everything every time it runs, old items are really seen as old items and are not shown in the results (they can be shown, but only if there's nothing new).
2. It sits in the background and imports only your new bookmarks every 30 minutes, consuming almost no CPU (you can confirm this by watching the logs in Console).
3. It lets you search only in your del.icio.us bookmarks, through Leopard's advanced search: if you type in Spotlight "ldap kind:del." (without quotes), it will show you any saved bookmarks that have LDAP in their names or in their tags. You can use "kind:book" to include all your del.icio.us and Safari's bookmarks.

You can even create Saved Searches like this:

And if you got interested in any of the themes in the above screenshot, you can find them and much more here.

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