Customize Google

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www.customizegoogle.com/
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).

Features:

* Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you're typing)
* Add links to competitors
* Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
* Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search
* Secure Gmail and Google Calendar, switch to https
* Block Google Analytics cookies
* Hide the Gmail spam counter
* Make URL previews on sponsored links visible NEW!
* Add favicons in the web search result NEW!

* Remove ads
* Anonymize your Google userid
* Add a result counter in search result
* Filter spammy websites from search results
* Add links to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
* Remove click tracking
* Add links from Google to your bookmark manager
* Use a fixed font for Gmail mail bodies
* Stream Google search result pages NEW!
* Sticky Google Preferences NEW!

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There are clearly many opportunities for enhancing your web research with Customize Google. The simply effective feature I've most recently added is the streaming Google search results pages, making it so that I never need to click the "next page" button, but can scroll the results easily (using Cooliris to collect the links I am interested in!). I look forward to exploring other features of Customize Google, and will announce new features as I become happily familiar with them.

(Unfortunately, the streaming results feature doesn't work on hosted Google Custom Search Engine pages like those of SearchPigeon.org...)

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