Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Google search tool collections



Google indexes and searches billions of webpages and is the premier search engine on the internet. A quick analysis of the search page essentials of Google Search and remember to set your preferences. is helpful to understand and analyze the search results.

Official Google Search Tools

Special Searches

  • Google Video - Search TV programs and videos
  • Google Image Search - comprehensive image search on the web
  • Google Music Search - search for music
  • Google Book Search - Search the full text of books (and discover new ones).
  • Google Catalogs - helps you browse and search merchant-provided catalogs
  • Froogle - Google's shopping search engine
  • Google News - Search and browse 4,500 news sources
  • Google Scholar - search for the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
  • Google Maps - View maps, get driving directions, and search for local businesses and services.
  • Google Public Service Search - offers educational institutions and non-profit organizations worldwide free SiteSearch, which enables users to search your website, and free WebSearch, which enables users to search the Internet.
  • Google's University Search - enables you to narrow your search to a specific school website for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news.
  • Google Ride Finder - view taxi or shuttle locations in several cities.
  • Google Base - submit all types of online and offline content that is hosted and made searchable online.

Google Topic Specific Search

Google For Webmasters

  • Google AdSense for search - Opportunity to earn money by Google whenever your users click on the targeted Google adsense ads on search results pages.
  • Google Free - provide Google search results to users who want to search the web or just your website.
  • Site-flavored Google search - delivers web search results that are customized to individual websites.
  • Customizable Google Search - you can customize your results display to include background, text and link colors you select.
  • Google Search Appliance - is a hardware and software product designed to offer large businesses the productivity-enhancing power of Google search.
  • Google Mini â€" Google search for your website and intranet

Google Desktop Search Tools

  • Google Deskbar - Search using Google without opening your browser
  • Google Desktop - a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed.

Google Mobile Search Services

Google Search Toolbars

Third party Google Search Tools

Search Google with Firefox Extensions

  • 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 new1.gif - 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".
In the end, this amazing list of Google Web Search Features lists the many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for. Google Zeitgeist lists the current Google Search patterns, trends, and surprises.

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