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I am sure if you are reading this blog, you should love searching. So today I offering a new (somewhat geeky) way for you to search: using a command line. Basically it works like this: (1) Provide a search term; (2) Provide a shortcut that will tell the tool which search engine to use to search for the provided term. The search tool Accessible via: Serchilo Web tool, FireFox search plugin Katapulco Web tool Ubiquity FireFox addon Serchilo Serchilo is a highly customizable search tool that can be used to quickly use any search engine or site. [g seo] You can see which commands are available while you type the query: More things to take note of: Install the search plugin into your browser. Browse existing commands by category ; Add great commands, edit not so great ones; Register at the site for more handy features (define a default keyword which Serchilo will use if you forgot it, define personalized commands, etc). Katapulco Katapulco is an awesome search tool that gives access to over 90 search engines from a single search command line. It works similarly to Serchilo but it requires to input the search engine shortcut in a separate field. For example, this command will redirect to Google search for [SEO]: More things to take note of: Customize the tool by adding any search engine or site ; Suggest your own search engine or site for inclusion. Ubiquity The only reason why I am mentioning Ubiquity as the last one is that I already reviewed the tool on SEJ , so most of our readers must be already aware of the tool. Still, I couldn’t help mentioning it again because of its great features. Ubiquity is a FireFox addon that enables you to quicker access and complete multiple tasks you do daily (including search of course). Besides being highly customizable and really feature rich, it also has quite a few great plugins that allow to search and preview multiple results on multiple useful search engines including Google Trends, Digg, Urban Dictionary, Compete traffic stats, etc: Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 3 Ways to Search Using Command-Line
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Don’t look now guys, but only 16 months after it was officially released, Google Chrome is now the world’s no. 3 browser , based on Net Applications’ web browser usage data for December. What makes this more interesting is that Chrome has edged out Apple Safari which has been occupaying the third spot next to Internet Explorer and Internet Explorer. Google Chrome registered a 4.63% market share while Safari got 4.46% making it the no.4 browser for the first time. It is also worthwhile to note that Google just released the beta editions of Chrome for both Mac and Linux so it is most likely that this brought a sudden surge to its market share. While Safari may have slipped down to the no. 4 spot, it still managed to increase by 0.1%. Not unlike IE and Firefox which both suffered minor setbacks with 0.92% and 0.1% decrease in market share respectively. Joining Google Chrome and Apple Safari with increases in market share is Opera’s web browser which managed to get 2.4% of the browser market. Net Applications’ data was based on usage share from the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients. This amounts to 160 million unique visitors monthly. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Chrome is Now the No. 3
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I have already shared a few nice tools that visualize Wikipedia articles and let you better understand the topic basic structure. I also looked at some awesome Wikipedia tools that will help you discover controversial content and research related topics. This week I am sharing more fun you can have with Wikipedia: 3 experimental FireFox addons that (1) visualize how you browse Wikipedia, (2) graph each Wiki article semantically and (3) show you how much you should trust each article content. 1. Wikipedia
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seo,
tools,
wikipedia,
wikipedia-diver
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Quick Scroll is a new little tool from Google for Google Chrome. It basically helps to navigate to the part of the document that you saw when clicking on Google search result. After you click on a Google search result, Quick Scroll may appear on the bottom-right corner of the page, showing one or more bits of text from the page that are relevant to your query. Clicking on the text will take you to that part of the page. What it means is the following: (1) The user searches Google to find something and clicks more or less relevant result; (2) Having landed on the page, he sees it seems to be about the topic but he can’t find the exact place that caught his attention when being at SERPs; (3) Here’s where the Chrome extension comes to rescue: it displays a little pop-up below the screen with the quote from the search result snippet; (4) The user may click that quote and he will be taken to the exact place of the document used to create Google search result snippet. Note that the little window won’t appear always: for example you won’t notice the tool when the keywords from your search or the quote from the snippet are on top of the page or quite visible. The tool will only interfere when you are likely to need it. Quick Scroll appears only when it’s likely to be useful, helping make sure it won’t get in your way when it’s not needed. Why I thought that was a cool tool to share? The most important reason why I thought Quickscroll is worth sharing here is that it demonstrates Google’s plans and experiments on introducing further navigation right within the document itself. First that was named anchors as additional page navigation aid , then “Jump to…” links below the clickable page title and now this. I also stumbled across this thread about related Google patent – Artificial Anchor for a Document in the SERPs : With systems and methods described herein, mechanisms are provided to generate or simulate links with artificial named anchors and to allow the browser to recognize the artificial named anchor and navigate directly to the desired specific part of the target webpage even when the author of the webpage has not created a named anchor at the specific part of the webpage. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Quick Scroll: Google Chrome’s Web Document Navigation
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tools
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Ever since Google Chrome blog announced the launch of Google Chrome Extensions , people have never stopped talking when this move is going to kill FireFox. Well, you might know how much I love FireFox ( even despite the fact that because of my experiments with addons it sometimes becomes dead slow ) and how hardcore I may become wen it comes to something that I love, but even I couldn’t ignore those talks any longer. So yes, I went ahead, did some research, tried Google Chrome extensions and here’s what I came up with: Chrome Extensions vs FireFox
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security-issues,
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It’s Christmas Eve, or the Night Before Christmas, and the time has come again to track the route of Santa Claus as he travels the globe, bringing presents to the good boys and girls. Want to track Santa’s whereabouts on Christmas Eve? Here are the online tools you need. Official NORAD Santa Tracker NORAD continues it more than 50 years tradition of tracking Santa’s whereabouts especially on Christmas Even. Read more about why NORAD tracks Santa as well as spirit of voluntarism during this event. Google
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santa-tracker,
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seo,
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I find it sad that many people are absolutely unaware of Google advanced operators, or even if they do know about the advanced search, they never use it. I for one use Google advanced operators all the time: when doing on-page diagnostics; searching for backlink opportunities, doing competitive research, etc, etc So in this post I decided to share the best tools and tutorials that will help you remember and learn to use the advanced search (if you are not using it already): Advanced search
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