10 Chrome Extensions That Will Boost Google Search

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Filter your search results, view pictures with ease and make many other things easier with these extensions.

1. Fast Advanced Google Search

Google's advanced search capabilities are useful, but often too lazy to tinker with. This extension allows you to launch an advanced search using a hotkey. Just press Alt + G, check the boxes and search for anything without bothering to memorize Google search commands.

2. Faster Google Search

When you click on a link on a Google search page, you don't immediately open the site you want. Instead, Google first redirects you to a special page to track website traffic.

Faster Google Search disables this feature so you can instantly open sites without being redirected to Google pages. In addition, with this extension it is much more convenient to copy the URLs of the sites found directly on the results page.

3. Google Search Filter

A cool extension that highlights or hides certain search results. For example, if you add lifehacker.ru to the section of highlighted sites, all links to Lifehacker will be highlighted in green. If you add a site to the blocklist, you will no longer see links to it in Google results. You can save a lot of time by brushing aside sites you don't want to see in advance, or by highlighting your favorite resources.

4. Infinite Scroll for Google

If you are tired of flipping through Google search results, this extension will allow you to make fewer unnecessary mouse clicks. It displays search results on one endless page, so you just have to scroll down and the results will load as you scroll.

5. Personal Blocklist (by Google)

Another extension that allows you to filter search results. If you don't want a particular site to appear in your Google search, you can hide it with one click.

6. Search the Current Site

To search for a certain word or phrase only on a specific site, you must enter the query site: address in the search bar. But this is a long time, isn't it? It is much easier to install this extension. Click on its icon in the Chrome toolbar, enter a search term, and Google will search on the site that is open in your browser.

7. View Image

Google recently removed the "Open Full Size" and "Search by Image" buttons from its search page. If earlier you could immediately open the found picture right in the browser, now you have to go to the site containing the image every time and open the picture from there. It is easy to work around this problem by installing View Image. This extension will put the removed buttons back in place.

8. Search by Image (by Google)

Google's image search feature is great, you don't need any TinEye with it. Just feed the search engine the desired picture, and it will find all the images that are similar to it.

The Search by Image extension makes searching for images even easier. Right-click on the image and select "Search Google".

9. SearchPreview

Remember Google had a cool preview feature? It allowed you to quickly view the found site directly on the results page without opening it. This function has been removed, but SearchPreview may return it.

Install the extension, start searching on Google for something, and you'll see page thumbnails next to entries in search results.

10. Google Search Shortcuts - Resulter

Another cool Google trick that has been removed is the ability to control the search using only the keyboard. You could select and open search results with the arrow keys and Enter. If you get used to it, it is much faster than clicking a mouse.

Resulter brings back the ability to use hotkeys to navigate the Google search page. In addition, the extension adds several other useful keyboard shortcuts to Chrome and a dedicated search bar that lets you switch between Google search results without returning to the search page.

Google search keyboard shortcuts - RESULTER getresulter.com