If you’re like most people, you use both Wolfram Alpha and Google Search on a regular basis. But how do they work together? In this article, we’ll show you how to combine Wolfram Alpha results with Google Search results in Firefox. First, open Firefox and type “wolframalpha” into the address bar. This will take you to the Wolfram Alpha website. Next, click on the “Search” tab at the top of the page. This will open up a search box where you can type in whatever you want to search for. Now, click on the “Google” button next to the search box. This will bring up a list of Google Search results. You can select any of these results to use as your source for further searches on Wolfram Alpha. ..
Setup & Options
Once you have the extension installed you will notice a new “Status Bar Icon” in your browser. The icon acts as a quick on/off switch to enable or disable combining search results.
These are the options for the extension…all focused on display properties.
Note: You will most likely want to activate the “Always show scrollbars on Wolfram Alpha frame.” option (see below for an alternative way to access the scrollbar).
Wolfram Alpha Google in Action
For our example we decided to do a search on Singapore. As you can see the search results are displaying nicely side-by-side (terrific!).
Here is a close-up of the Google results…
And a close-up of the Wolfram Alpha results (very nice!). Just for fun we left the Wolfram Alpha frame scrollbar deactivated to show a nice option for it…
Notice the “Show scrollbar” option in the lower right corner. You can easily control when you want or need the scrollbar without it always being active.
Conclusion
If you love having extra goodness packed into your searches, then you will definitely enjoy using the Wolfram Alpha Google extension!
Links
Download the Wolfram Alpha Google extension (Mozilla Add-ons)
Download the Wolfram Alpha Google extension (Extension Homepage)
