Filed under: Internet, Productivity, Search
You have probably noticed this yourself: when you do a search on Google there tends to be a lot of unfilled, unused, or otherwise blank area to the right of the search results that could be used for better things. Things besides ads that might relate to your search. Such as Wikipedia summaries for your search term, or related images and videos, and dictionary definitions. That would be nice, wouldn’t it?
Well, If you’ve ever had such dreams of grandeur, that wish has been fulfilled.
It’s called Google Extra, a Greasemonkey script that adds just that extra functionality you’ve been looking for in your Google searches. Let’s state you search for the term “monkeys.” Not only are you served your usual search results about “monkeys” on the left, but results from an image search, video search, a Wikipedia entry on “monkeys,” and the dictionary definition of what monkeys are on the right.
The nice thing is, you can organize the stack of result boxes in any way you want. So, if for convenience’s sake, you preferred a dictionary definition at the very top before your image results, you can do that. The script remembers your preferences, locking in each last ounce of goodness from your searches. That, and the extra results load after your primary ones, which keeps the experience quick and snappy without a noticeable increase in page load times.
[via CyberNet]
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