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Welcome to this week's edition of Etips.
If you've been on the Internet for a while, you've probably noticed many
sites are now offering their own toolbars for your browser. However, you
can only add so many toolbars to your browser before they start interfering
with your browser window -- each toolbar you add takes up a little more space
and your viewing area keeps getting smaller.
In today's edition of Etips, I will be featuring an article entitled,
Enhance Your Web Surfing with the Right Toolbar, written by Merle.
This article provides you with an overview of a number of available
toolbars to assist you in selecting the toolbars that best meet your needs.
I hope you'll enjoy this week's edition of Etips.
To Your Success!
 Enhance Your Web Surfing
with the Right Toolbar
By
Merle
Have you ever wanted to do research
on a topic and didn't feel like going to a specific search engine to do it?
Well, you don't have to. If you download a "search toolbar," you can actually
perform research from wherever you are online and do some other pretty cool
things depending on which one you may be using.
Most of the major search engines offer "free search toolbars" for download,
to enhance your surfing experience and make tracking down information a snap.
You need to keep in mind that most toolbars will only work in Internet Explorer
5.0 and above.
Let's review some of the most popular bars available for download:
1) Google
The king of search engines, Google offers up a superb toolbar and my personal
favorite. The latest version contains a pop up blocker, a mechanism to fill
out online forms with one click, a way to check the page rank of any site
you may be visiting and more. Since Google also bought Blogger.com, members
of that free service can also post to their personal Blogs with a click on
the toolbar.
2) Yahoo
With this you can bookmark your favorite websites, search the web, peruse
yellow pages and get notified of new Yahoo email you may have. If you'd like
to refine your searches to just images or news, you can do that or check
on your favorite stock quotes. Click the included yellow marker and instantly
highlight the search words on any web page you're presently visiting.
3) Hotbot
Hotbot allows you to search over 200 search sites including Hotbot itself.
This toolbar installs itself into your windows task bar (unlike the others,
which attach themselves to your browser).
4) Alexa
Rated by CNET Editors as a top pick download, it contains a popup stopper
and combines Google search results with Alexa information. Search Amazon
for products, check news and stocks, find out a site's traffic ranking, find
similar sites and use their handy "tell a friend" to inform your pals of
great websites -- all with just a click. This is a great one for online marketers
to research your competition. Use the "wayback machine" to view archived
versions of any website you're visiting.
5)
Altavista
This toolbar allows you to search within Altavista or within a particular
site you're visiting. In addition to its built-in popup blocker news &
image search and weather & zip code finder, this one will translate text
or web pages into 10 different languages.
6)
Teoma
Search Teoma from any web page. Includes a built-in highlighter that highlights
your search terms as they appear on the page. Dictionary and page email functions
are built right in. This toolbar is dynamically upgradeable as new versions
become available.
7) Ask
Jeeves
Search Ask Jeeves from anywhere on the web. Use the built-in "kid friendly"
search function to find sites suitable for children. Get financial info,
weather, news, search for local events or get a map of any location in the
U.S. Also includes email this web page to a friend function.
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As you can see, your options for a toolbar are pretty impressive. But which
one should you use? That depends on which search engine is your favorite.
Most of them offer similar features and with the inclusion of popup blocking,
that's one less piece of software you need to have on your machine.
There are also toolbars served up by "Meta Search Engines." Meta engines
do not maintain their own database, they actually query other major search
engines for their displayed results. So if you use one of these toolbars
you'll actually be doing a search across several different search engines
at one time.
Let's look at a few:
1)
Trellian
Search across all major search engines such as: Alta Vista, Fast, Google,
Inktomi, Overture, Teoma and more. Includes a popup killer, spellchecker,
and is a handy tool for anyone doing search engine optimization.
2)
Dogpile
Queries 13 major search engines including Google, AllTheWeb, Inktomi, Ask
Jeeves, Overture and more. Includes image search, stock quotes, weather,
news and much more.
3) Groowe
Search across Yahoo, Google, Teoma, AllTheWeb, MSN and others. Perform
specialized searches, such as news or images.
4) Ultrabar
Search across multiple search engines. Ability to highlight search terms
within the page you are visiting. If you'd like a customizable version of
this toolbar that you can give away from your own site. Add your own menu
items, icon and additional search engines. This could be used as a great
promo item for your site and pricing starts at only $89.00.
As you can see, you have many choices when it comes to browser toolbars.
By choosing wisely, you'll have a desktop tool that will help you be more
efficient and perform smarter web searches -- and with a price tag of free,
that's a terrific bargain!
About the Author:
| Merle
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