Google is the king of internet search there is no doubt about that. I can say with some certainty that each and every computer user has at some point used Google’s excellent search service. More importantly these users found what they were looking for with relative ease and accuracy. But most do not know of the secret Google – Searchmash.
Searchmash

From Searchmash site – SearchMash lets you search the internet in new ways. It is constantly evolving as we come up with ideas and figure out what works and what doesn’t. Check back here from time to time to see what has changed, and also to tell us which ones are useful to you. Please bear with us when the site is unavailable as we are limiting its use.

You don’t have to have your cursor in the search box to start typing your query. Your previous query will be replaced with whatever you type.

Click on “hide details” in the title bar to collapse the display of web or images results, allowing many more results to fit in view.

You can see other types of results, such as images and blogs, in the blocks to the right of the standard web results. Expand a block by clicking on its title.

Click the “more results” bar at the bottom of the page (or hit the space bar) to show more results instantly.

You can watch a video by clicking on its thumbnail. Click on the video that’s playing to pause it.

But keep in mind Searchmash Terms of Service only allows for personal use and NO automated searches – SearchMash is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You may not use SearchMash to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales. You may not take the results from a SearchMash search and reformat and display them, or mirror any SearchMash page or results pages on your Web site. You may not “meta-search” SearchMash.

A typical search on Searchmash provides the normal Web search results in the main window on the left. But it also comes with a sidebar on the right with expandable search results for – Images, Blogs, Videos, Wikipedia. Notice the “hide details” link on top of the web search results. You can click it to only display the page results of the searches (restricted to one result per line)
Searchmash search results