With Google Chrome, FireFox smart keywords and multiple addons, searching from the browser address bar has become the common searching experience. But is there any way to give your browser address bar “instant” feel? Actually, there are two ways. Here are 2 tools to search from FireFox address bar and see instant results as you …
Shortly after starting my SEO career and creating my online moniker, I have registered annsmarty.com domain name. I have never been able to find a good use of the site though – speaking about myself has never been something I’ve been good at. So I just kept it to occasionally share some professional news about …
Are you tired of Google as you see it with all its experiments and updates? Do you want to get things under control? Then you may want to try any (or all) of the following Google search modifications: 1. Google Informative Informative Google Search is a FireFox search plugin that takes advantage of Google’s sidebar …
We scan through Google Results daily, sometimes even hourly. Having Google results numbered helps a lot in understanding where your (or your competitor’s) page scores. With Google changing its SERPs so often, it is essential to be aware of several tools that would number Google SERPs for you. Understanding the Limitations When you number Google …
Today SEO SpyGlass, the link and and competitor research software we gave a very favorable review earlier, is adding a new exciting feature and data source – the news is pretty huge, so we decided to announce it as a separate announcement post. As you know, since there’s no telling how long Yahoo Site Explorer …
Google is launching more and more free tools and services. I use some of them daily if not hourly (like Google Search, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Image Search, Google Analytics, more!); I hardly use some of them weekly (Buzz, Blogger) and I never use some of them at all (Picasa, Google Wave, Knol, etc). Due …
Custom Google Search is a FireFox addon that provides the user with great tools to easily create and switch between Google custom search engines. First, have the addon installed and immediately after the restart you will be asked to name your very first search engine and look through the “How to start” guide. Let’s try …
I have always been amazed by and supportive of simple but genius ideas I keep coming across daily. This time it’s "Dark Patterns" community initiative by Harry Brignull. "Dark Patterns" is the wiki of “dirty tricks" designers use to cheat people into doing things they are aimed to. Here’s a great presentation to introduce you …
When Twitter lists were first introduced many people were very skeptic, others (like myself) didn’t have the time to use them properly and to figure out how the feature can benefit them. Through the months after the feature launch I’ve been randomly experimenting with it and came to some great results. I’ve already shared; How …
With the rise of modern instant forms of mass communication, the languages we use in our daily lives are evolving at a pace never before experienced in the history of mankind. People living in the same country, separated by just a few generations, often have a completely different ways of communicating with each other. Words, …
