Google Search Tools

Official Google Search Tools

• Google - The Search Engine.
• Google Advanced Search - search google based on specific parameters
• Google Suggest - As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you’re typing and offers suggestions in real time.
• Google Trends - Graphically see and compare what the world is searching for.
• Google Personalized Search - make your search experience more relevant to you.
• Google Search History - Keeps a record of all searches and clicked results while a user is logged into a Google Account
• Google Blog search - Google search technology focused on blogs
• Blogger Blog Search - Search for blogs all over the web
• Google Directory - Search the web organized by topic into categories.
• Google Alerts - sends emails automatically when there are new Google results for your search terms.

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 News archive search - provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives.
• Google Scholar - search for the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.
• Google Patent Search - find the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.
• 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’s Special Searches - enable you to narrow your search to a specific topic.
• Google Apple/Macintosh Search - Search for Apple/Macintosh-related sites using Google
• Google Microsoft Search - Search Microsoft-related sites using Google
• Google Linux Search - Search all penguin-friendly pages
• Google U.S. Government Search - Search all .gov and .mil sites
• BSD Unix - Search web pages about the BSD operating system

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.
• Google Custom Search Engine - Specify the websites that you want searched and integrate the search box and results into your own 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 – 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 SMS - Send a text message wiht your search query, and receive text message with search results
• Google SMS UK - enables you to send queries as text messages from your mobile phone or device and easily get precise answers to your questions.
• Google Mobile : Web Search - Google Web Search results on your phone or mobile device
• Google Mobile : Mobile Web Search - search for sites that have already been designed to fit the screen of your phone or device
• Google Mobile : Image Search - Google Image Search results on your phone or mobile device
• Google Mobile : Local Search - get local listings, maps and driving directions on your mobile phone or device

Google Search Toolbars

• Google Toolbar - Add a search box to your browser
• Google Toolbar Beta - Test the latest version on IE.
• Google Toolbar for Firefox - Add a search box to your browser
• Google Toolbar for Enterprise - provides powerful productivity features including easy access to Google, customized search buttons, instant search suggestions, and a pop-up blocker.
• Google Browser Buttons - add to a personal toolbar giving you access to Google search technology without taking up extra screen space.

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

• Search History - View your search history. Google Personal Module.
• Random Site Image - Displays a random image from a given website (via Google Images site search). Google Personal Module.
• Google Search Greasemonkey Scripts - use the power of greasemonkey to modify the web.
• Google Search Yahoo Widgets - collection of Google search widgets in various formats
• Milly’s Bookmarklets - Bookmarklets that use the Google search engine to search for stuff.

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

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