Okay so after a little fiddling about I have a solution of sorts for my search problem. Its not perfect but its a start.

It uses launchbar although you could just as easily build it as a service in OSX if you were so inclined.

Basically you create an action in applescript using the following code…

on handle_string(s)

	tell application "Safari"

		open location "http://www.google.com/search?q=" & s

		open location "http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/" & s

		open location "https://www.google.com/history/find?q=" & s & "&btnSMH=Search+History"

		open location "http://www.delicious.com/search?p=" & s & "&chk=&context=userposts%7Cboagworld&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1"

	end tell

end handle_string