Making Google Universal Search (Sort Of) Work Like Ask3D

Google Universal Search and Ask3D are two different approaches to the same thing: how to blend results from various search databases into a single page. Ask has received praise for being more elegant in its presentation. What if you could make Google act like Ask? You can, with a new Greasemonkey script. Encyclopedic Google from […]

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Google Universal
Search
and Ask3D
are two different approaches to the same thing: how to blend results from
various search databases into a single page. Ask has received praise for being
more elegant in its presentation. What if you could make Google act like Ask?
You can, with a new Greasemonkey script.


Encyclopedic Google
from Google Operating System explains the
Google Extra script more
and how it removes Google’s ad column on the right-hand side to insert results
from images, video, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com.

Don’t have the script but like the idea?
Searchmash
is Google’s test site where
you get regular
Google results in the main column and images, blogs, video, Wikipedia and other
results on the right. When it works, that is. I kept getting a "Oops, we’re busy
right now! Please try again later" when I tried it today.

By the way,

Guide To Googles Universal Search
has Manoj Jasra providing a round-up of
various articles on how Google’s Universal Search works from resources across
the web. So check it out, if you want to know more. Included is our own
Google 2.0:
Google Universal Search
tutorial, and earlier this week, our
Search
Illustrated column
has a great
Google’s Universal
Search Explained
article that put the concept of Universal Search in an
easy-to-digest pictures.

Also see our
Google:
Universal Search category
for continuing coverage of Universal Search from
us.


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Danny Sullivan
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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