Home   About   Popular   Archives   Advertise   PhotoBlog   GuestBlogging   Contact   Feed readers

The Big Google Search Tools Collection

April 24th, 2006 | Filed under Google, Lists, Tips, Tools.
ADVERTISEMENTS

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

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 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 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 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 - 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.

This post is constantly updated. Post in comments any tool you wish to add to this collection. A link back would be appreciated.

Tell a Friend | Stumble It | Bookmark on Delicious | Digg it

Related Articles
» Search Over 7 Million Patents with Google
» Find Popular Search Terms with Google Hot Trends
» Google U.S. Government Search
» Google Suggest on Google News Launched
» Google Image Labeler : Improve Image Search Results

Subscribe new articles by RSSRSS feed or by Email

Comments

  • Chandu | 26/04/06  #

    Great Collection.

  • Search Engines WEB | 1/05/06  #

    This is a valuable resource - just gave it a Digg
    [Edit: Linked to Shorten Url]

  • 3spots | 1/05/06  #

    Nice! This going to become a very very looog list!
    http://www.googlism.com/
    http://www.soople.com/
    http://www.googlecloud.com/
    hmm, those are the only ones I have in mind now…

  • maxon | 1/05/06  #

    cool list!

    Google software like Picasa and others also would be relevant.

    And then it would be almost complete list.

    (may be most popular blogs about Googles? notify me if you want them. i have a list of some at my blog, but my blog is in Ukrainian, so not linking.)

  • Waggers | 8/06/06  #

    You missed out http://www.googleityoumoron.com/

  • Googwall | 3/08/06  #

    Try googling with a wallpaper!

  • Xabel | 7/08/06  #


    Google Video widget for Windows 2000, 2003, XP.

  • tekwhiz | 8/08/06  #

    This is my favorite!
    ALL google products on one easy to use page:
    http://www.googdesk.com

  • WebdevIndia | 24/08/06  #

    Great collection. I had to bookmark this page.

  • Marketingtroll | 27/08/06  #

    Great Collection, Am thinking of adding Google Search to mysite. Might be alot better than the search script i currently use. hmmm.. Ponders.. :)

  • Free PHP Script | 27/08/06  #

    Nice article…

  • fkj | 1/09/06  #

    beautiful List! Thank you! Google has a been a business godsend. Thanks for putting this list together.

  • Ed Schmidt | 8/09/06  #

    http://www.UltimateSuggest.com

  • Parastas Gheorghe | 23/09/06  #

    Nice list … I din’t know are so many tools :)

    Thanks

  • aristianto | 18/10/06  #

    Great Information, i can find all google services here :)

  • oyun | 27/02/07  #

    thank you dude. it should be digged!!

  • sam | 22/04/07  #

    If I type the word “Car” into the google search box and press enter it takes me to various web pages. Later when I go back to the google search - Once in click on the search box a scroll down box appears and the word “Car” is there. Kind of like a google search history.

    I do I remove this feature?

  • johnny K | 29/04/07  #

    Very good ones :) one more that worth mentioning http://filebytype.googlepages.com/search.htm

  • Lukas | 26/05/07  #

    Thanks for the great collection

  • Andre | 15/06/07  #

    A super great collection, very useful, thank you so much

  • Izdelava spletnih strani | 9/07/07  #

    Some very usefull links… all in one place. Thanx

  • sandip | 18/07/07  #

    Thanks ! Really it’s very nice google collection.

  • Sushi Dating | 18/08/07  #

    Man, there are a lot of google search tools. I did not know that. Thanks for the list.

  • mixeb fan | 18/08/07  #

    Try this great tools for easy search on google

  • mixeb fan | 18/08/07  #

    Try http://www.mixeb.com for better search in google

  • anyone | 19/08/07  #

    A super great collection, very useful, thank you so much

  • Lochy | 24/08/07  #

    try these:

    http://www.blackle.com

    go 2 google and search:
    Google |33t
    Google Gothic

  • macdet | 29/08/07  #

    please give me time to read & understnad this!

    WAU! thx a lot.

  • Matthias | 3/09/07  #

    A great effort and great work thank you.

  • ardi | 6/11/07  #

    Getting closer with Mr. G :)

    Awesome resources !

  • Online Games Business | 8/11/07  #

    The most important tools for webmasters, thanks Google

  • Adsense Preview | 10/11/07  #

    Yes and there are more google tools developed by other businesses like this one… http://www.adsense-preview.com :)

  • rentals | 17/11/07  #

    There is a specialist Google search for scripts. I cannot think of it for now though, does anyone know this?

  • John | 24/11/07  #

    Hi,

    There´s a new site with the google functions(blogg,picture…) that makes searching the internet quick and easy.

    http://www.msfreckles.com

    I like this because its in english, chinese and swedish

  • hiruthi | 28/11/07  #

    this was very informative …

  • Tom | 7/12/07  #

    Great article! Thanks for this collection.

  • Mark | 28/12/07  #

    Check this website out…

    http://www.onlyjust.net

  • Shafiq Rehman | 16/01/08  #

    Nice article about google mania.

  • kurye | 26/02/08  #

    this subject is very important for us . thank for subject. please write back soon

  • Free Gaming | 27/03/08  #

    This is quite a list of links. Thanks for the resources.

  • Web 2.0 Blog | 5/05/08  #

    I love the Googlism. Lol.

Comment on “The Big Google Search Tools Collection”