LinkExtend allows you to enhance your web surfing experience getting link information instantly on computer security, company ethics, child safety, popularity, and much more.
The information gathered from many free online services is combined in order to provide you with comprehensive results.
LinkExtend is cross-platform and it works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Here are some key features of "LinkExtend":
Main Features:
· Safety - Informs you if a web page is malicious, sends spam, contains spyware, identity theft, etc.
· KidSafe - Alerts you about unsafe sites for kids and erases them automatically from your history
· Ethics - Rates a company's ethical behavior including social responsibility, environmental impact, etc.
· PageRank - Represents how important a webpage is, according to Google link analysis algorithm
· SiteTraffic - Shows you how popular a site is, based on its page views and visits
· Visited - Tells you when you last visited a site, what pages you accessed, and more
· SiteTools - Page age, site reviews, contact details, previous versions, etc.
· Links - Access the links and titles in a web page without having to open the page itself
· Files - Shows all files on a web page organized by categories (videos, music, images, programs, etc.)
· SimilarStumble - Instant access to sites related to the one you are browsing
· SuperSearch! - Over 200 top search engines offer Answers, Books, Health, Jobs, Media, News, etc.
· Hide Search Results - Lets you hide search results harmful to your PC, unethical or unsafe for kids
LinkExtend Forms:
· Toolbar - Gives you all the information for any website you are visiting and lets you SuperSearch
· Context Menu - Learn about any link on a web page
· Search Results - Search smarter with indispensable knowledge accompanying your search results
Extra Search Features:
· Thumbnail - A reduced image of a site chosen from four services offering different speeds and sizes
· Result Number - Each search result can be numbered as an aid to remembering and locating a result
· Site Icon - The icon associated with a particular website
Safety Services:
· Web of Trust - Web of Trust is a free security add-on for Firefox and Internet Explorer that protects you from online scams, identify theft, unreliable shopping sites and security threats before you click. Ratings for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety.
· McAfee SiteAdvisor - A Firefox and Internet Explorer add-on that analyzes and rates websites in detail for unsafe or annoying practices, security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, and unsolicited browser modifications and more.
· Web Security Guard - Prevents infection of your computer and invasion of privacy, It displays detailed information and user reviews, offering protection against adware, spyware and data loss.
· Browser Defender - Tests websites for excessive pop-ups, phishing and other fraudulent practices, and browser exploits. Downloads are tested for viruses and bundled adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs.
· Norton Safe Web - Analyzes websites for hacking tools, malicious downloads, browser changes, viruses, drive-by downloads, phishing attacks, backdoor, suspicious applications, information stealers, remote access software, worms, downloaders, dialers, security risks, adware, trojans and spyware.
· Compete - Trust scores warn of potentially malicious web sites (spyware and phishing).
· Google Safe Browsing - Uses advanced algorhithms to alert you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences.
KidSafe Services:
· Web of Trust - Child safety signals the presence of age-inappropriate material, dangerous or illegal activities.
· Alexa - Provides a child safety score indicating if the site has adult content
· Google SafeSearch - Screens for sites that contain explicit sexual content and deletes them from your search results. No filter is 100 percent accurate, but SafeSearch should eliminate most inappropriate material.
· Web Security Guard - Prevents infection of your computer and invasion of privacy, It displays detailed information and user reviews, offering protection against adware, spyware and data loss.
· Browser Defender - Tests websites for excessive pop-ups, phishing and other fraudulent practices, and browser exploits. Downloads are tested for viruses and bundled adware, spyware or other possibly unwanted programs.
· ICRA - Gathers content provider information regarding a site's adult content such as nudity, sexuality, violence, language used, gambling, drugs, alcolhol, etc.
Ethics Services:
· Scryve - Creates a company profile for each organization based on the company's ideals and behavior in two basic categories: environment and community, ranked from one (worst) to ten (best).
· Knowmore - Provides detailed information and ratings of a company's ethics in the areas of worker rights, human rights, political Influence, environmental issues, and business ethics.
Site Traffic Services:
· Alexa - Alexa's traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. It is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. Multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.
· Quantcast - Directly measures traffic for quantified publishers and provides rough estimates for the rest of the web. It gauges the actual reach, frequency and popularity of websites using a Mass Inference algorithm to produce refined profiles that accurately represent web audiences.
· Compete - Uses rigorous statistics to make sure estimates balance demographic and connection factors that match the entire U.S. Internet population. More than a dozen metrics are used including unique visitors, rank, visits, attention, velocity, average stay, pages per visit, page views, reach, total time spent, and visits per person.
· Statbrain - Combines actual number of visits to a website with information about number of links that point towards the site, country, Alexa ranking and other data that is available on-line to estimate the number of visits that a site actually has.
Requirements:
· Firefox 1.5 - 10.*
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed Google search results
· Fixed Google PageRank
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