Thursday, 21 June 2007

Third Party Google Search Tools


  • CustomizeGoogle - enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
  • Googlebar Lite - A light-weight Google search toolbar for Firefox.
  • GoogleTabs - Adds a context menu option to open Google search results in tabs.
  • Advanced Dork - Highlight a word or phrase, right click, and choose from over 15 Advanced Google Operators, A google search page is opened in either the same tab or a new tab, the results contained in the search will contain the highlighted text inside the chosen Operator.
  • GooglePreview - Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites and Amazon products into the Google and Yahoo search results pages.
  • Feeling Lucky - Performs Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search with any selected text and opens the result in new a tab.
  • Aggregate Yahoo! and Google - Search Yahoo and Google simultaneously
  • GooglebarL10N - is the localized version of Googlebar with Menues & Texts in German, Italian or Spanish.
  • Google Advanced Operations Toolbar - provides a shortcut to some of Google’s advanced search functions.

Google Page Modules / Scripts / Widgets / Bookmarklets

Multi Search Tools

  • Simply Google - search all Google services on one page. Lots of forms.
  • HotDaddy - search all Google services on one page. Lots of icons.
  • Google Total - search all Google services on one page. Drop down menu.
  • GahooYoogle - search multiple Google and Yahoo services together side by side.
  • Twingine - Google and Yahoo search side by side.
  • Soople - performs all advanced search functions of google in separate forms

Miscellaneous Google Search Tools

  • Google Cloud - displays search results as a tag cloud
  • Babelplex - enables users to search Google’s web index across two languages.
  • Google Current - airs every half hour on Current TV and provides a look at what the world is searching for on Google.
  • Googlewhack - a query consisting of two words (without quotation marks) entered into Google’s search page that returns a single result.
  • Cookin’ With Google - allows you to provide a list of ingredients and get back a list of recipes that Google finds for you.
  • Goofresh - is a way to search for sites added today, yesterday, within the last seven days, or last 30 days.
  • Google Fight - Compare the number of results for two competing keywords.
  • GoogleDuel - a popularity contest using the Google search engine.
  • Random Web Search - it generates a random word, then searches that word on the web using Google.
  • Googlematic - Enables searching of Google via AIM or MSN Messenger.
  • Googlism - will find out what Google.com thinks of you
  • Google Tool - Search multiple google datacenters simultaneously.
  • elgooG - a mirror image of Google
  • LostGoggles - adds search site preview images, Amazon pricing, site info links and the Open-in-New-Window-button. Formerly “More Google”.