Find every question your audience asks — without leaving the keyboard.
Glarify Ask fans out a single seed into hundreds of real PAA, related searches, and long-tail queries. Preview, pin, theme, and brief — in one keyboard-driven flow.
A keyboard-first question research engine
Ask sits between SERP scraping and a content brief. It pulls People-Also-Ask, related searches, and long-tail variants from Google and Bing, lets you triage them with ↑/↓ + P + B, previews results in a split-screen panel, and exports the keepers as a brief.
From a seed to a brief in six moves
- 1Seed your query
Type a topic, keyword, or full question. Ask normalizes the phrase, expands synonyms, and pulls People-Also-Ask + related searches from Google and Bing.
Try a noun phrase like "headless CMS" — Ask will fan out into the long-tail.
/⌘/Ctrl↵ - 2Pick a sense
Ambiguous terms (e.g. "claw") get a disambiguation chip row. Pick the sense you mean once — Ask remembers it across sessions so every re-run respects your intent.
- 3Browse with the keyboard
Use ↑/↓ (or J/K) to walk the list, ↵ to open a question, P to pin a winner, B to grab a brief. The detail drawer shows tier, rank, source, and SERP context.
↑↓↵PB - 4Preview without leaving the page
Press \ (or click any SERP result) to open the split-screen panel on the right. Iframes load live; sites that block embedding fall back to the reader.
\ - 5Reader view for blocked sites
Press R inside the panel to flip to reader mode — clean markdown via r.jina.ai, fetched in ~1s. Cached locally for 7 days so re-opening is instant.
R - 6Pin, theme, brief, ship
Pin the questions worth writing. Group them into themes (clusters), then export a content brief — intent, outline, entities, and competitor citations.
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Every surface of the Ask page
Read SERP results without losing your place
Things power users do that look like magic
Toggle "Turn keywords into Glarify Ask seeds" in the detail drawer — clicking any PAA/related search re-runs Ask on that keyword using your remembered sense, instead of opening Google.
The source pill (GOOGLE / BING) on each row tells you who surfaced it. Both engines often differ — that gap is your opportunity.
Open the panel, hit R for reader, scroll, then ↓ to walk to the next question — reader caches mean subsequent opens are instant.
Pinning is cheap. Hit P liberally during discovery; cull from the pinned view once you have 20+ candidates.
Every Glarify Ask shortcut
- Focus the search box/
- Run discovery from anywhere⌘/Ctrl↵
- Next question↓
- Next question (vim)J
- Previous question↑
- Previous question (vim)K
- Open the highlighted question↵
- Pin / unpin highlighted questionP
- Download a content briefB
- Toggle split-screen preview on/off\
- Close the open preview window]
- Toggle reader view vs live iframeR
- Close preview / detail / clear highlightEsc
- Open the shortcuts dialog?
Common questions
Why does the preview show "site is blocked"?
The target site sent X-Frame-Options or a CSP that refuses iframe embedding. That's a server-side block — no client can bypass it. Press R in the panel to read the article via our reader instead.
Why don't shortcuts work after I click into a preview?
Once focus is inside a cross-origin iframe, the browser routes keystrokes to that page, not to Glarify. Move the pointer back over the panel chrome (header / outside the iframe) and shortcuts resume immediately.
Do my queries leave the browser?
Queries are sent to our SERP providers (Google/Bing wrappers) and cached. Reader fetches go to r.jina.ai. No query is associated with a user identifier in third-party logs.
How fresh are the results?
SERP responses are cached per query with a nightly pre-warm for tracked terms. You can force a fresh pull from the detail drawer.
Can I share what I find?
Yes — every Ask session can be shared via a public link, exported to CSV/markdown, or piped into a content brief.
Open Ask, type a seed, and let the keyboard do the work.