Search Features: Toolbars & Add-Ons
Meet NinjaCat ‘Shinobi,’ the all-in-one agency reporting and monitoring platform of the future
Reports are so 2000 and lame! Everything in our world — from software to phones, cars and TVs — is getting smarter, faster and...
Need A Google Reader Alternative? Meet Newsblur
With the shutdown of Google Reader having just been announced, the Web is full of discussion about where those of us who utilize RSS should...
How To Search Anywhere From The Firefox Search Bar
Last week Mozilla released version 8.0 of Firefox and a nifty new feature allows you to search Twitter directly from the Firefox search box....
Redesigned Bing Bar Toolbar More Like A “Dashboard”
Bing is introducing a totally redesigned version of its toolbar, called the “Bing Bar.” Apparently it has been “rebuilt from...
Bing Terminates Relationship With Publisher Doing Tricky Home Page Switch
Is Facebook’s third largest advertiser really a site that tries to trick people into switching to Bing? Apparently not. Still,...
Microsoft Releases New MSN Toolbar, Now Powered By Bing
The Bing team tweeted last night that a new MSN Toolbar is now available at toolbar.msn.com. The new toolbar is supposedly now powered by Bing,...
The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting
Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to...
Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since...
The DiggBar Compromise: Show Framebar Only To Logged In Digg Users
Digg is promising a significant change to how its DiggBar framebar operates, one that should solve SEO concerns about how link credit is passed...
The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar
The DiggBar has been out for about a week now. Since then, there continues to be concerns over twin issues of whether it robs sites of link love...
Inquisitor Debuts On iPhone
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that my favorite search browser plugin, Inquisitor has made its way to the iPhone. You can get it right now on...
Internet Explorer 8 Search Now Showing Instant Answers From Live Search
The Live Search blog announced that Internet Explorer 8 is now showing instant answers from Live Search in the search box. This feature is on by...
Yahoo’s Inquisitor Now Available For Firefox & Internet Explorer
My favorite search browser plugin, Inquisitor, is now available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. Inquisitor was Apple Safari’s only...
ChunkIt, A New Information Extraction Add-On, Now Available
ChunkIt is a toolbar that digs deep into the links found on web pages, extracting “chunks” of information from those pages, allowing...
Search & Internet Explorer 8
After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh), I spent some time playing...
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing
Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo’s human-powered search results next to the results from the major search...
