Googlepedia is truly meant for those who like and do visit Wikipedia often from the results displayed by Google in the user searches. Googlepedia is available as an add-on in Firefox and is completely free. This add-on would split the Google page into two halves. Each half would each constitute to the Google search results on one side and on the other side would be the Wikipedia articles. Google results would be viewable on the left side and the Wikipedia results on the right side of the browser.
It is true that typing the search term in Wikipedia directly would mean the same and would take the same amount of time to search and find the beat article but the user would not have the opportunity to have all the results in the same page and would not be able to scroll down the results. Another important aspect (an advantageous feature) of Googlepedia is that it allows the user to shrink and expand the articles that are displayed from Wikipedia on the right. The user would even be able to hide the Wikipedia display altogether.
The internal Wikipedia links in Googlepedia would be available as clickable Google searches by default. But, depending on the users requirement, the setting can be toggled any time. the Wikipedia language in which the articles would be displayed can also be changed by the user depending on their need.
One more important feature or goodness of this add-on is that encyclopedia’s open source articles would also appear after Google’s results. Though FireFox has a number of add-ons that are not really popular, this latest add-on is certainly a huge hit among the internet users. Wikipedia has been considered one of the most reliable sources of information among many respected authors and scholars. Number of people even quote Wikipedia in their work. So by providing an exclusive section in Google results through this add-on is indeed a nice tweak. Number of internet users have already seen this add-on but it has not been advertised fully so it remained almost hidden if not dead until it came to light a couple of days ago. People are wondering that whether there are many such useful add-ons with FireFox that has not be publicized properly by this major browser company. This is where Google stands out; if it were to be a product of Google, then it would have received due attention and publicity from the company because part of Google’s success relies on its ability to popularize itself and its own products. If only other companies have to follow the footsteps of Google they will indeed do well in terms of their own growth and success online.