Smushy Search - SearchTweaks

Smushy Search Helps You Build Topical Searches on Google Without Getting the Same Old Results.

When your knowledge of a topic is minimal it's hard to refine a search query to get past the very general "front door" results that a search engine can provide. Enter Smushy Search.

Smushy Search takes a topical search term and uses the Datamuse API to find related words (a frequency setting allows you to specify how common the words should be). Four of the found words are then picked at random, added to your query term in two "or" pairs, smushed into a Google query, and opened in a new tab. The idea is to let you explore a topic with in-depth search results without needing any kind of prior knowledge, and without the time needed to build a specialized vocabulary.

Query (one term, please):

Enter a single word for best results.

Along with your query, do you want to specify any extra words to include in your search?

Separate multiple terms with commas.

Do you want to filter out some common ecommerce URL and string patterns?

This will remove Amazon and eBay, and attempt to remove common ecommerce results.

Do you want to restrict your search results to .edu and .gov domains?

Does what it says on the tin. Might break your search, but worth a try.

What is the maximum frequency you want in your additional query words?

The lower the frequency, the less the word is commonly used. Low-frequency words generate the most-focused results but there are fewer of them to find.