Xtra-Google – The Best of Google on one searchable page.
Xtra-Google is a page with all Google services on the same page. Enter your query in the search box and click on the appropriate service’ button. Optionally, you can have your search results displayed in a new window. This page is a great choice for a start page of your browser.
I’ve accidentally noticed today that I have climbed up yet another step in Google’s page ranking table. Searching just for “leonid” brings up the link to this blog on the first page of results!!! I’ve attached the screenshot for historical reasons too (that is when I’ll be the number one link).
Things like this boost my enthusiasm enormously. Expect even more blogging in the future.
Here is a source code for Google Suggest. The original script was compressed to minimize traffic. This one is uncompressed and commented.
Today, I have finally managed to visit my bank. I asked the clerk to deposit money from the Google’s check and the whole thing took like 2 minutes. I am impressed. Not only the whole thing worked, but money came in order and it happened that they reached me in the best possible time ever.
Needless to say that money from the website do encourage me to dedicate more time to it. So, don’t be shy and by all means check links that Google ads provide on every page of this blog. Either you will find something interesting that is related to what you are looking at already, or you will drop a few cents to my account, or both.
Thank you.
Most of you probably already know this, but I have just found out myself, so I’ll share just in case some of you missed it too…
Recent versions of Mozilla Firefox have a feature called a search bar. It is usually located to the right of the address bar. By default, this search bar is configured to use Google. That is, instead of going to Google, you can just type your query in that search bar, hit Enter and you will get the search results. This is very convenient and saves a lot of time and clicking around.
Now, if you click o the small Google icon in the search bar, you will be presented with a list of other search engines, that you can use instead of the default Google option. There is also a menu item marked “Add Engines“. If you click on it, you will be taken to this page, where you can find hundreds and hundreds of other engines that you can use. Two that I have been missing the most were Google Images and IMDB.
Check this out and you will most probably save yourselve a lot of time.
P.S.: On Linux, these engines are installed into some global directory, so your Firefox will need root access.