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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: June 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 13,512
- Downloads last week: 2
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
When Google, Yahoo, or any other major search engine overwhelms you with so many matches it reads more results than dollars in the national debt, ChunkIt might be the plug-in for you. Available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, it "chunks" up your search returns, providing snippets of relevant text.
The add-on splits your browser tab into two vertical sections, the left side with the ChunkIt results and the right with unchunked returns. Clicking on the text of a ChunkIt result loads the text in the right pane, highlights the relevant bit in yellow, and scrolls directly to it. A link at the top of the pane opens the page that your result lives on in a new tab.
This is a large plug-in, weighing in at more than 8MB. Using it requires use of the ChunkIt toolbar, something that may not go over well as browser design becomes more streamlined. Users who need help narrowing down broad searches will find this plug-in exceptionally useful. On the other hand, users comfortable maneuvering through "the Google" might find ChunkIt extraneous to their needs.
Publisher's description
From TigerLogic :The perfect search add-on. Transform your favorite search engine into an information powerhouse. Yolink searches within the pages of your engine's results to find your search terms in context. Go beyond the links. Search Web pages and discover information conventional search tools may have never revealed. In addition to mining content on a webpage, yolink will mine all of the links on that page for information relevant to your search. Yolink highlights information in the context of its original Web page and on the right side of your browser. Eliminating the need to bounce between multiple windows. Share your findings effortlessly by clicking on the save and share link. An email message containing your valuable information and the original Web page address is instantly created and ready to send, or save in folders for future use. Go beyond conventional search and find commands. Yolink allows you to search lengthy reference manuals, PDFs, legal documents, contracts, and news sites quickly and effortlessly. Yolink is especially helpful with a multi-word search, because it can extract all of the relevant content surrounding any of your search terms and display it all at once.
Version 2.0.0.0048 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
ChunkIt! is now yolink
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Version: Yolink Firefox 2.0.0.0048
"should be good for wanderers"
Pros: many links
Cons: almost never a wanted link
Summary: removed it after 3 days
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Version: Yolink Firefox 2.0.0.0048
"Probing, time-saving, deep-drilling search tool"
Pros: Quickly finds and searches through all links on a page to find more pages that may be relevant to the search term. Saves a lot of time on brute-force searching.
Cons: Can only search on pages on which some link exists; dependent on the original search engine for the prime results, thus making it dependent on your original search engine. This is an adjunct functionality only.
Summary: If you're certain you can find out more by drilling down through top-level search results, Yolink can eliminate a lot of manual search. But it can't find anything more outside of those first results, so your effectiveness is determined still by the ... read more >>
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