JotBot is a launch once, use forever program -- after your first search, JotBot ducks behind your main window. Whenever you're seized by another irresistible urge to find stuff, simply bring JB to the front, type, and hit return -- the deed is done in seconds, no waiting for pages to load. JotBot kindly defaults to phrase searches, and returns 25 matches at a time instead of a paltry 10. What's more, search results always open in your regular window... Leaving the small but cute JotBot once again in the background, ready for instant backtracking, search revising, etc! With version 1.7, you can even set JotBot as your browser's default homepage without losing your exising homepage: thanks to the new "Set Startup Page" option, JotBot can memorize your homepage URL -- loading it in the main window every time you launch JotBot.
To modify your search according to advanced options, hit the 
button. Since this enables more stuff then could possibly fit in JotBot's small window, you're transported at once to selected search engine's advanced search page.
New features of version 1.8:
And enjoy.
-Joseph McLean, Chief Programmer & primary wood chopper (pictured here during a typical day at his office)
