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By ktashes — Last update Sep 20, 2009 — Installed 7,216 times. Daily Installs: 5, 10, 13, 9, 5, 8, 9, 9, 9, 4, 8, 5, 12, 8, 18, 10, 9, 6, 7, 9, 8, 7, 7, 8, 6, 14, 8, 12, 8, 10, 5, 5
Script Summary:
Adds functionality to the Google web search. Main features include Multisearch, Image & Video results with a Player, Wikipedia definitions and links, and some clutter cleanup by. All options can be turned off.
Version: 1.18

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Searching from http://google.com no longer triggers. See Author's note for more information.
A bug in Greasemonkey version 0.8.3 causes issues with the wikipedia results. To fix this, just update Greasemonkey to the latest version.
Bug Tracker
*Works on the IPv6 version of Google*

Features

  • MultiSearch
  • Video Search Result Extraction *Out of Commision*
  • Wikipedia Excerpt
  • Ad Removal
  • Minor Visual Cleanup
  • Google Video Results in Web Search
  • Integrated Player for Video Results
  • Google Image Results in Web Search
  • Open All Links in New Tabs
  • Clean & Simple Configuration Page
  • Image Slideshow for Image Results
  • International Support
  • Customizable styles *UPDATED*
  • Revert Google Search Box & Button to Former Size

Coming Soon

  • A column based style
  • Fine-Grained Style customization
  • Improved "Dock" style appearance and support
  • Language Selection (HELP WANTED, See Discussions)

MultiSearch

The MultiSearch feature places the search bar in a box that can be expanded so you can search multiple pages at once. View the screenshot above to see an example.

Video Player Information

The player area simply loads the video from the site and embeds it in that sites default player. Currently, only Google Video, Youtube, and MetaCafe are supported. More may be added later, but it will be a low priority unless I get specific requests.

Current Bugs

I have setup a bug tracker for use with this script, and will try to keep bugs up to date on both sites. If you find any bugs, please report them there using the "Create an issue" link.

--- First release (.9) is bugged. Please upgrade to a newer version to get better functionality ---
Bugs are listed by date and given a priority from 1 to 5 (1 being critical 5 being low).

  • 09/28/08 - As Of Ver 0.99 - Priority: 3 - On occasion, the page must be reloaded for the configuration to load.
  • 09/19/09 - As Of Ver 1.18 - Priority: 4 - Image search will sometimes fail. (Should be a lot less frequent)
  • 04/28/09 - As Of Ver 1.00 - Priority: 1 - Google search sometimes does not activate script. Fix Delayed
Please report any you find. Also, feature requests are gladly excepted.

General Information

This script should work for all versions of Firefox, though it has only been tested on Firefox 3.5.X. All current features can be toggled with the User Script commands (right click on the monkey in the bottom right corner(default) or under tools).

For those with slower connections:

The extra search features, such as the wikipedia, image, and video searches, will take a while for you to load, so turning these off may be in your best interest.

For those with 800x600 Screen Resolution:

The recommended style for a smaller resolution is Centered as it still allows functionality while keep results from being distorted.

Authors Note

The script is essentially undergoing a massive overhaul to transfer it to work with both versions of Google. Sorry it is taking so long, but I don't really have an estimate of when it will be out. Hopefully soon, with all of the features I want, but we'll see.

Thanks,
KTaShes

Versions

Version 1.18 - Bug Fix Release - 09/19/09
  • BUG: Misspelling caused center to not load entirely correctly. Fixed
Version 1.17 - Style Release - 09/19/09
  • STYLE: Dock - A non-modified version with a selectable dock navigation.
  • STYLE: Center - For both smaller resolutions and those who like things centered.
  • REMOVAL: Search Shortcuts are no longer available. Multisearch is used for multipage searching.
Version 1.16 - Bug Fix Release - 08/06/09
  • BUG: Everything should be appropriately positioned again.
Version 1.15 - Bug Fix Release - 07/25/09
  • BUG: Image search will no longer cause script to go into infinite loop
  • FEATURE: Image search now includes a loading dialog
  • How images are found in an image search has been almost completely rewritten, and it should now find images easier and be far less likely to break.
Version 1.14 - Bug Fix Release - 07/16/09
  • BUG: International Pages will now display mutlisearch properly. (Reported by: James)
Version 1.13 - Bug Fix Release - 07/01/09
  • BUG: Slight visual modification as Google code changes.
Version 1.12 - Bug Fix Release - 04/22/09
  • BUG: Video results will display the proper information again
Version 1.11 - Bug Fix Release - 04/15/09
  • BUG: Calculator and no result searches will no longer display configuration
  • BUG: Tabbed clicking results are working again
Version 1.10 - Feature Release - 03/11/09
  • FEATURE: Added the ability to choose different styles
  • FEATURE: Changed multisearch to be easier to use
  • BUG: Now only checks for an update once a day (Sorry US.O)
  • BUG: No longer shows two results when back button is used
  • BUG: More efficiently finds what user searched for
  • Cleaned up code
Version 1.08 - Bug Fix Release - 02/12/09
  • BUG: Search bar is no longer removed when Remove Suggestions is turned on.
  • NOTE: Suggestions are not properly removed at the moment. This will be taken care of.
Version 1.07 - Bug Fix Release - 02/06/09
  • BUG: Using the middle mouse button to open in a new tab will now work properly.
Version 1.06 - Bug Fix Release - 01/14/09
  • BUG: Using the Ctrl Click, Shift Click, and Ctrl Shift Click shortcuts will now work properly.
Version 1.05 - Bug Fix Release - 01/08/09
  • BUG: No longer removes some legitimate search results.
Version 1.04 - Update Release - 01/05/09
  • International support added
  • FEATURE: Notification of updates
  • BUG: Image search works better
  • BUG: Minor display issues with slideshow
  • Improved configuration page
Version 1.03 - INTERNAL RELEASE ONLY - Not Released
  • Code clean up
  • Comment expansion
  • Very minor optimizations
Version 1.02 - Bug Fix Release - Oct 23, 2008
  • BUG: Image search now fixed for Google's new image search code. Again.
Version 1.01 - Bug Fix Release - Oct 13, 2008
  • BUG: Image search now fixed for Google's new image search code.
Version 1.00 - Initial Release - Sept 28, 2008
  • FEATURE: Added a slideshow for the image search results
  • FEATURE: Added multipage image search feature
Version 0.99 - Beta Phase Release 5 - Sept 24, 2008
  • BUG: Recoded to work with the new Google searching code
  • FEATURE: Added a configuration script
  • Redesign of code so as to work with new Google search style and format
Version 0.98 - Beta Phase Release 4 - Sept 14, 2008
  • BUG: Fixed minor display error with video extraction results and video search results
  • FEATURE: Added image searching and viewing to the main page
  • FEATURE: Added ability to open all links in a new tab, including multisearches
  • CHANGE: Player is now shown when no video or image is active (with instructions)
  • Massive redesign of coding and comment layout, though most core code remains the same
Version 0.97 - Beta Phase Release 3 - Sept 12, 2008
  • BUG: Fixed major error with videos not linking correctly (now links to the video player)
  • BUG: Typing in the search shortcut code only no longer redirects you to that page
  • FEATURE: Added video player for video search results (Google Video, Youtube, and MetaCafe currently supported)
  • CHANGE: Some search shortcut codes were changed, see above for details (you can now search google for 'flickr')
  • UPDATED: Google changed their sidebar ads code, so it should filter out correctly now
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