Free Internet ToolBars
Toolbars are an original web extension which allows you to:
- Focus visitors on your site "hot points"
- Attract visitors after leaving your site
- Clean your pages by moving links into a toolbar
- Build a web site navigator
- Give more exposure to your sponsors
- Participate in our FREE banner ad exchange
- Advertise at no charge in front your competitor site's audience
- Bypass pop-up blockers protections to show your messages and ads.
Search Toolbars From Major Search Engines
There are a variety of ways you can search and navigate the web without first going directly to a search engine. Search toolbars provide direct access to search engines from within your browser, while meta search utilities such as
make it easy to search more than one search engine at the same time. Search companions often help you
"discover" information as you browse pages on the web.
- Stop Pop-ups, Surf Related Links, and More!
Patented
Alexa gives you information about the sites you visit.
Helpful
A healthy community is built on trust and open information.
- Who owns this site and how do I contact them?
- Do people like this site?
- How much traffic does this site get?
- Are there other sites I should visit instead?
Friendly Alexa learns from people. The more people use it, the better it gets!
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- Web Search: search within all AltaVista indexes, including the best image search on the web.
- Site Search: search the site you are currently on.
- Translation: translate text or web pages into 10 languages.
- Popup Blocker: get rid of annoying popups.
- See All Toolbar Features or Toolbar Help
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- Search the web with Ask Jeeves from any site
- Get Ask Jeeves Smart Search for news stories, dictionary definitions, weather forecasts and more
- Prevent annoying pop-up ads
- Configure web pages for easy 1-page printing, using the cool 'Zoom' feature
- Instantly email any web page to a friend
- Customize your toolbar
- …plus other great features!
- See Toolbar Features or Toolbar Help
In addition to searching Ask.com, the Jeeves toolbar lets you limit your search to news, dictionary, stock market, weather, events, maps, and the Ask Jeeves Kids web sites.
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- Web Search - Find the best results from the Web's leading search engines.
- White Pages - Look up residential listings from around the U.S.
- Yellow Pages - Access business listings easily from one location.
- Popup Blocker - Block those annoying popup ads forever!
- Ticker - Get the latest news and information delivered directly to your ticker.
- Ticker Customization - Control the ticker's speed, size and scrolling direction.
- RSS Tool - Add any type of ticker feed, including news, summaries and blogs. Learn more.
- SearchSpy™ - Watch scrolling terms to see what people are searching for in real-time.
- Cursor Search - Search any word(s) from a Web page or Word document by right-clicking your mouse.
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- Search the Web from whatever page you are on
- Popup Blocker - Block those annoying popup ads forever!
- Fill in online forms
- Personlize your search options
- High light Search Term on every page you visit
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- Search from your Browser
- Search the Web
- Search Local Files: Files, Email, Browser History
- Search & Read RSS Feeds
- Block annoying Pop-ups
- Highlight Search Terms
- Create Search Shortcuts
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Make the most of your surfing time. Search the web, start MSN Hotmail, or open MSN Messenger – all without leaving the page you're on. It's fast, it's easy, and it's free. Download MSN Toolbar now!
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Provides direct access to Teoma's search results, offers search term highlighting on the pages you visit, allows access to an online dictionary and provides the ability to email any web page you view.
The Teoma Search Bar is dynamically upgradeable. Rather than having to download a new version of the Teoma Search Bar whenever additional features are made available, these new features will automatically be added as options to your Search Bar.
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- Yahoo Companion [FREE}
Welcome to your own personalized Internet.
- Search from anywhere on the Web
- Enjoy hassle-free surfing with Pop-Up Blocker and Anti-Spy
- Customize and access your Toolbar from any PC
Search Yahoo, access Yahoo Mail, check on stocks and more via a toolbar within your browser.
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Advanced Searchbar
Advanced Search Bar
Provides access to 60 search engines, plus push button access to disk utilities, webpage translation, a calculator and other features. Be forewarned: it's a 1MB download.
CNET SearchBar
Search
This customizable toolbar is made exclusively for searching on CNET sites including download.com, news.com, search.com and shopper.com for technology news, and as a
shopping search tool for products from anywhere on the Web.
Copernic Meta Toolbar
Copernic
Lets you meta search the web via a toolbar integrated into your browser.
Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar
dqsd
Like the Google Toolbar, this gives you access to Google without having to first visit the Google web site. Unlike the Google Toolbar, it has a number of other options built into it, such as the ability to query other search engines such as AllTheWeb and Teoma, as well as a range of specialty search services. This can be done using a menu-system or by special prefix codes in front of your query. The toolbar also has a built-in calculator, currency converter, translation tool and other features. This installs into your Windows taskbar, rather than into your browser. It also requires a 400K download.
GGSearch
Frysianfools
GGSearch is designed to provide toolbar access to the many specialized searches offered by Google, including Google groups posts, images, links, Uncle Sam, linux, news, BSD, Microsoft, Google answers, stocks, froogle, some Google labs tools, and others.
Groowe Toolbar
Groowe
Here's a toolbar that gives you easy access to searching Google and many other search engines, as well. With a click, you can query Yahoo, Teoma, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, MSN Search and others. In addition, it makes it easy to perform specialized searches with many of the search engines it supports. Get images back from AllTheWeb, or search only against Yahoo's human directory, or get news results back from AltaVista. It's a quick download and highly-recommended.
Googlebar
Googlebar
Got Netscape but you want the Google Toolbar, which is only for Internet Explorer? Then check out the volunteer-created Googlebar for Netscape.
Gophoria
Gophoria
This simple utility allows you to highlight any word or words on a web page, then click to do a Google search, or to get dictionary or thesaurus definitions. Fast 100K download.
Macintosh SearchGoogle.service
SearchGoogle
A simple background service to allow you to select text in (nearly) any application and press "Shift-Apple->" to launch a Google search for that text.
metaEureka A-Toolbar
Metaeureka
Lets you get results from metaEureka, a meta search engine that hits several major web-wide search engines. Alternatively, you can also choose to search against specific search engines, as well. Beyond searching, you can use the toolbar to prescreen your email for spam, translate words into different languages, do dictionary lookups, check the time in various countries, convert currencies and much more. You can also get information about a particular URL, count links to that URL from various search engines, do a basic position check and get a keyword density report for a particular page (single words only, not phrases). Among network tools is the ability to telnet, ping, traceroute, do DNS and WHOIS lookups.
Trellian Toolbar
Trellian
The Trellian toolbar allows you to search multiple engines, returning up to nine result pages for each engine. It also offers some web site development and search engine optimization tools, such as a PPC search tab that provides easy search of the major pay per click engines.
UltraBar
Ultrabar
Like Groowe, UltraBar gives you easy access to multiple search engines plus allows you to add your own. It also provides many of the features you'll find in the Google Toolbar, such as term highlighting and jumping to keyword buttons. Highly-recommended.
Vivisimo Toolbar / MiniBar
Vivisimo
Vivisimo minibar-download
Lets you tap into Vivisimo meta search results from your browser. The second URL lets you load a "mini" version of the toolbar, helpful for those who already have many other search toolbars installed.
Similar to metacrawlers, the meta search utilities below send your query to more than one search engine at the same time. But unlike online meta search engines, many of the software packages can also retrieve actual web pages, allowing you to sort results, perform more analysis, eliminate dead links, save searches and more.
Copernic Agent Basic
Copernic
Copernic Agent is a meta search engine, invisible web explorer, online research assistant and extensive tool box, all combined into an elegant, easy to use toolbar.
InfoGrid Internet Explorer Bar
Infogrid
Allows Internet Explorer users to change the search button from its default behavior of using MSN Search to instead meta searching at several major search engines via the InfoGrid site. Also provides access to news search services and other resources.
Apple Sherlock
Apple
If you have a Mac with a current OS, then you've got meta search and more built in. This page at Apple explains more.
SearchWolf
Trellian
Allows you to search multiple search engines from your desktop.
WebFerret
Ferretsoft
WebFerret lets you search across the web. The free version has banner ads, while the paid version does not.
Subject Search Spider
Kryltech spider
Metasearch utility that queries the selected set of search engines in over 35 languages. Has text highlighting and other features.
The search companions and navigation tools below are designed to help you find or discover information, often in non-traditional ways.
AdSubtract
Intermute
This software removes paid listings from search engine result pages, along with banner ads and pop-ups. Paid inclusion listings are not removed.
Annotate Net Radar
Annotate
Similar to Alexa above, this browsing companion suggests content from its partners that is related to what you are viewing.
Grokker
Groxis
Grokker lets you "fly" through search results grouped into different topics. It can be a helpful way to easily maneuver yourself into the right results, when there's more than one set of answers to your question.
GuruNet
Gurunet
First known as GuruNet, then Atomica, then revived in early 2003 as GuruNet once again! This tool lets you highlight words or Alt-Click on them in a document and then send the word to an online dictionary or thesaurus.
HydraLinks
Hydralinks
HydraLinks is a simple utility that lets you manipulate and save search results to a customizable list, speeding up your searching and letting you easily share results with others.
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser
Touchgraph - TGGoogleBrowser
Enter a URL, then see a pretty picture showing you interlinks between that URL and other sites based on Google's "related" command (also called
Similar Pages). However, don't misinterpret this as an illustration of actual site interlinking. Pages related to a URL are not necessarily pages that link to that URL. Instead, they are simply pages that Google deems to be similar in terms of content.
UCmore
Ucmore/
This tool installs into your browser and then shows information related to the page you are viewing. It's billed as "contextual search," but it's more a discovery tool along the lines of Alexa, above. In other words, you don't search using it, but you may discover new sites related to those you like. It will suggest directory categories and actual web sites from the Open Directory that are deemed related to the page you are viewing. So, if you are listed in the Open Directory, you may show up in front of those using this tool. "Elite" listings get you a guaranteed placement -- these come from being the top bidder with FindWhat. The tool also claims not to be spyware, but content owners may not be happy to have it suggesting other sites to their visitors. Similar criticisms have been levied against Alexa, in the past.
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures?
Online, Jan/Feb 2004
http://www.infotoday.com/online/jan04/OnTheNet.shtml
A guide to the many search toolbars now littering our desktops, looking at what's offered, options and possible problems.
Designs on desktop search
News.com, Jan. 12, 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5138715.html
Now that Google's jumped out of the browser and into the taskbar, Microsoft and Yahoo are thinking of doing the same.
Beyond Google: Narrow the Search
AP, Jan. 4, 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,61783,00.html
A look at tools that automatically categorize and sometimes even visually present search results. There's nothing new about the concept. Northern Light did auto-categorization back in 1997, and AltaVista had a visualization tool in the same year, to name only some examples. They never caught on, but perhaps the new crop may have more luck -- though even these "new" tools mentioned are all more than a year old.
Going Deeper than Google
Fortune, Dec. 16, 2003
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,563090,00.html
Review of Grokker, which lets you "fly" through results found by Google and other search engines.
Monetizing Graphical Search
InternetNews.com, Dec. 15, 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article.php/3289001
Trying to shake people out of the 10 textual search results format, a new version of Grokker provides the ability to "fly" through results items of interest, while
Vivisimo has released a new toolbar to let you access "clustered" search topics from its acclaimed meta search engine.
AdSubtract to snip paid search results
IDG, Dec. 8, 2003
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/HNadsubtract_1.html
AdSubtract removes paid listings from search results as well as blocks other types of ads.
On the Google Deskbar
The Register, Dec. 4, 2003
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34338.html
The Register finds that, much as it says it's depressed to admit, the Google Deskbar is a good thing. Review of features and how changing habits from browser-based searching to taskbar searching worked for the writer.
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