How to Enhance Google and Yahoo Search Results

A Firefox and Internet Explorer plugin called GooglePreview can help you get more information from a Google and supposedly from a Yahoo search when using a supported browser. Here are steps for enhancing your search results with GooglePreview.

Things You'll Need

• An Internet connection

Instructions

1. GooglePreview inserts preview images (thumbnails) of websites and popularity ranks into the Google search results pages. This additional information in your search results can help you identify the pages that are most likely to provide the information you are after.

2. Begin by downloading the GooglePreview plugin and installing it. It will work in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. After it installs, you must restart your browser.

3. You'll find a small icon that says GP in the status bar of your browser. You can toggle GooglePreview off and on with this icon.

4. 

   In a Google search for CSS display table I got the search engine results shown in the image. You see a thumbnail and a bar representing the site's popularity.

5. Hover over the bar showing site popularity and you will see a small tooltip popup that gives you the site's rank.

Tips & Warnings

• The developer asks for a donation when you download GooglePreview. Although it's good to help keep these developers afloat with small donations, it isn't mandatory.

• When I tested GooglePreview on a Mac in Firefox I didn't see any difference in Yahoo search results from when it was disabled. I don't know how the Yahoo search would work in Internet Explorer with Windows-hopefully as the developer advertised.

Resources

• GooglePreview Developer Site
• GooglePreview Download Site