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Google Search Custom Sidebar

Enhance your Google Search experience with a highly customizable and feature-rich sidebar! This script adds a persistent sidebar to Google search result pages, allowing you to quickly apply various search filters, perform site-specific searches, and access useful tools without navigating away or re-typing parameters.

Key Features:

• Quick Filters: Easily filter by language, time range (past hour, day, week, etc.), file type (PDF, DOCX, etc.), and country/region.
• Date Range Picker: Select custom start and end dates for your search.
• Favorite Sites Search: Quickly search within your predefined favorite websites (e.g., Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, GitHub).
• Search Tools:
  • Reset Filters: Clears all active sidebar filters.
  • Verbatim Search: Toggles Google's "Verbatim" search mode.
  • Personalization Toggle: Turn Google's search personalization on or off.
  • Advanced Search Link: Quick access to Google's Advanced Search page.
• Highly Customizable:
  • Appearance: Adjust sidebar width, font size, icon size, vertical spacing, and choose from multiple themes (Light, Dark, Minimal Light, Minimal Dark, or follow system).
  • Hover Mode: Optionally make the sidebar semi-transparent when idle, becoming fully opaque on hover.
  • Section Management: Show/hide sections, reorder sections, and choose section collapse behavior (remember state, expand all, collapse all, accordion mode).
  • Button Placement: Customize the location of Reset, Verbatim, Personalization, and Advanced Search buttons (sidebar header, top block, tools section, or hide).
  • Custom Filter Options: Add your own custom languages, time ranges, file types, countries, and favorite sites. Enable/disable predefined options.
• Internationalization (i18n): Interface available in multiple languages (English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian).
• Persistent Settings: All your customizations are saved and remembered.
• Draggable Sidebar: Reposition the sidebar anywhere on the screen.
• Collapsible: Collapse the sidebar to a minimal icon strip when not in use.

This script aims to bring back some of the power-user features and filtering convenience that might have been streamlined away in modern Google Search interfaces.

Dependencies:

• This script includes its own CSS styles and internationalization resources.