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SeenBefore Searches Only Recently Visited Sites on Google, Is Really Handy

Chrome: We've all been there once before. You're doing a bunch of research, find a really useful page, and forget to bookmark it, making it very hard to find later. SeenBefore fixes this problem by letting you search only your recently visited page on Google. More »
Drag & Drop Search Is an Insanely Fast Way to Search the Web in Chrome

Chrome has a great feature that lets you select text and right-click it to search that term on Google. Drag & Drop Search is an extension that does something similar: You select text, then drag it somewhere on the page to search up to 16 different web sites. More »
Search On YouTube Puts a Mini YouTube Viewer in Chrome

Are you ever looking at a web page with great information but want to find out if there's a simple, more easily-digestible version in video form? That's when it comes time to search on YouTube—except then you have to make another window or tab or leave the web page to perform that search. Search On YouTube is a Chrome extension that puts a tiny little YouTube viewer in your toolbar so you can search easily and trouble-free. More »
Add DuckDuckGo's Smart "Zero-Click Info" Results to Google Searches in Chrome

Chrome: Our favorite alternative search engine, DuckDuckGo, has a cool feature called "zero click info" that gives you Wikipedia articles, Yelp pages, and more at the top of relevant searches. Now, their Zero-Click Info Chrome extension will put those relevant links at the top of your Google search results, so you don't have to sift through results to find what you're looking for. More »
DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info Adds Instant Answers to Google

Chrome: One of the best features in the search engine DuckDuckGo is the instant answers shown at the top of the results page. If you find yourself more attached to Google for web searches, but want the instant answer feature, DuckDuckGo Zero-Click Info is a Chrome extension that stuffs those results right in your Google searches.More »
Use Bing's Beautiful Backgrounds as Your Rotating Google Wallpaper

Chrome: Prefer Google's search but wish you had Bing's beautiful daily images? With the "Bing wallpaper for Google homepage" Chrome extension, you can set Bing's wallpaper to automatically load on your Google homepage. The extension offers different themes and loading settings. More »
Faviconize Google Adds Small Icons to Google Search Results for Easier Scanning

Chrome/Firefox with Greasemonkey: This extension adds favicons—those little icons you see in your address bar when you visit a page—to Google's search results, so you can more easily see what site each link is coming from. More »
Select Search for Chrome Adds a Search Balloon to Highlighted Text

Chrome: Select Search is a Chrome Extension that pops up a ballon with a number of search engines when you select a block of text. When you double-click on a word or phrase you can quickly pop open a search in Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Binsearch, and others.More »
efTwo Supercharges Chrome's Find On Page By Finding Multiple Words at Once, Word Variations

Chrome: efTwo adds a new, more powerful "find on page" feature to Google Chrome, letting you search for multiple words at once as well as variations on each word, not exact matches. More »
FindThatBand for Chrome Searches Over a Dozen Services For Artists Just by Right Clicking Them

Chrome: If you've discovered a new band or artist while browsing the web and want to hear more from them or go buy their songs, FindThatBand lets you right-click their name to search Amazon MP3, iTunes, Discogs, Grooveshark, and more services so you can learn more about them. More »
SafariOmnibar Makes Safari More Like Chrome

Safari: SafariOmnibar is a simple plug-in for Safari that removes the search box from Safari and extends the location bar all the way across the top of the window. It also allows you to search by typing your search term into the location bar.More »
SelectionSK Adds Search and Translations to Highlighted Text in Firefox [Download Of The Day]
Firefox: SelectionSK is a Firefox extension that offers language translations, highlighting, and multi-engine search to
Google's Instant Pages Loads Pages Instantly By Prefetching

Remember the old feature in old Netscape browsers that prefetched links on a page so that when you clicked on it, the page would load from your cache instantly? Google's Instant Pages seems like that. More »
Six Great Experimental Features to Enable in Google Chrome's Labs

Google Chrome is a favorite among power users in no small part due to its innovative experimental features (many of which are eventually integrated into the stable browser). For our final installment of the best of Google Labs, we're taking a look at the best experimental, advanced features you can add to Google Chrome.More »
Open Multiple Links with a Click and a Drag with These Browser Add-Ons

Opening a lot of links takes a lot of clicks, which gets tedious when you're scouring Google for information. These Chrome and Firefox add-ons will let you select multiple links with a click-and-drag motion, opening them all at once. More »
Top 10 Fixes for the Web's Most Annoying Problems [Lifehacker Top 10]
The internet is wonderful, but it's also a landfill for many annoying things.
Google +Like Helps You Sort Through Search Results by Facebook Popularity

Chrome/Firefox/Internet Explorer: If you need a bit of help sifting through your Google search results, browser extension Google +Like will direct you toward the most popular pages by telling you which results have the most "Likes" on Facebook. More »
Omnibox Site Search Searches the Domain You're Visiting from Chrome's Omnibar

Chrome: While you can always make your own custom search keywords in Chrome, you have to manually make them for every site you search. The Omibox Site Search extension saves you the trouble by just searching the domain you're currently on. More »
Omnibox Site Search for Chrome googles your current website
Once installed, you simply type the letter s and press space to invoke a Google-powered site search for the domain you're currently visiting. The top five matches load in a flash, and you can also click through to Google via the top link for complete results. It's a fast, simple way to get results which are limited to a specific domain -- and as we know from experience, Google search is nearly always a lot better than most on-site search boxes.
Speechify for Chrome Adds a Search-by-Voice Button to Major Sites [Downloads]
Chrome (Beta/Dev): Voice input is now baked into Chrome's Beta version and soon to hit the standard, stab





