A couple of fantastic Google Chrome browser extensions
Over the last week, I stumbled upon two fantastic Google Chrome browser add-ons that really make a difference to my browsing experience.
First of all, if you aren’t using Google Chrome, you should really give it a try by downloading it from here: www.google.com/chrome.
Once you have downloaded and installed the Google Chrome browser, you can find the extensions that I will talk about here: chrome.google.com/extensions. By opening that link, you will see the many extensions already available for the Google Chrome browser. They work very similarly to the Firefox Add-ons many of us are used to.
The first extension I want to mention is a quick and easy Send From Gmail extension. This extension adds a nice little button in the upper right corner of your browser.
When you click on the button, it will open your GMail account with the link of the page you were on already in the body of the email. This makes it quick and easy to email links to people you know.
The next extension is one that will really help us all filter the crappy search results that appear to be moving to the top of the Google results pages. Basically, there are a lot of meaningless sites out there that are referred to as “Link Farms”. What these sites do is grab a lot of links and post out of context data on their sites. This seems to be fooling the Google search engine into posting these sites higher up the results pages. To try and help them filter out these less than favourable sites, you can install the Personal Blocklist extension which will add a “Block this site” link next to each search result.
This extension will let you block any site you don’t wish to show up in your personalized search results. I know I tend to search for a lot of technical answers and I am always directed to sites that require you to pay for a membership to receive an answer. This extension allows me to quickly and easily begin removing those sites from my search results completely.
