I came across a neat piece of software called Delimport (thanks to Timo from this post on Russell Beattie's blog), which allows you to search your del.icio.us bookmarks using Spotlight:
It does this (I think) by downloading all of your bookmarks and storing them in one of the cache folders in your home directory. Spotlight then comes along and indexes the files for you. I guess this is one of the limitations of Spotlight, in that it will only index the attributes of individual files (as opposed to one big file containing a lot of separate entities - e.g. bookmarks).
It'd be nice to see something like this integrated in Quicksilver or LaunchBar (Quicksilver may have it already, I don't know). I currently have a search template in Launchbar to search del.icio.us, but to have the results show up in LaunchBar itself would be awesome. 
One gripe I have with Delimport is that it requires you to install the Spotlight plugin and two frameworks. I understand that it's beta software, but I don't see any reason for them to be located outside of the application bundle. As far as I know, a Spotlight metadata importer and frameworks will happily exist inside the application bundle (and that is how it currently works in Connoisseur).
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