Compare two search engines side-by-side. You can even add it to your browser and you'll get autocompletion!
Start here.
I've always wanted to de-google my life, but had FOMO whenever I switched to another search engine. With DuckDuckGo, I would end up using !g at all times. A good way to start using a different search engine is to have Google's results side-by-side. It eases the transition, as one learns to trust the results.
There is absolutely no tracking. Feel free to peruse through the code for both the extension and this site in this repository.
Search engines do not let you display their search results in frames. They set X-Frame-Options which tell your browser to not display the page. The extension strips the header to display the page in the frame.
- Go to chrome://settings/searchEngines (copy-paste it).
- Find "Side-by-side Search", click on the three dots and select "Make default".
- Right click in the address bar and select "Add Side-by-side Search".
- Go to about:preferences#search (copy-paste it) and under "Default Search Engine", select "Side-by-side Search".
Some other extensions may interfere with Side-by-side Search. For instance, PrivacyBadger will block google.com if it's in a frame, as it thinks it's a tracker. You may need to whitelist google.com for this to work.
Feel free to open an issue.
- Clone the repository
- Build the frontend
- In the
frontend/
directory, runnpm i
- then build the CSS with
npm run build
- In the
- Load the unpacked extension
- For Chrome
- Open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.
- Enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to Developer mode.
- Click the Load unpacked button and select the extension directory.
- Firefox
- Open the about:debugging page, click "This Firefox"
- click "Load Temporary Add-on"
- then select any file in the
extension/
directory.
- For Chrome