Let's say your SPS site exists at http://my-portal/. SharePoint Portal Server allows you to initiate a search via an HTTP GET request. The syntax for this is defined in the SharePoint Products and Technologies SDK. If I wanted to search for the term Office on the portal the search URL would be: http://my-portal/search.aspx?k=Office. To perform this search from the DeskBand create a shortcut to the portal search:

@sps,http://my-portal/search.aspx?k=$w

Hey Presto, you have some basic integration with SharePoint search! Now you can just type:

sps Office
in the Deskbar to kick off SPS search for the word Office.

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