The global information space.
Kjell Gunnar Bleivik 14.01.2009 Staus: Will be updated with additional information.
So by using your personal toolbar, configuring your speed dial page and installing your favourite search engines you can dramatically improve your web browsing and surfing using the Opera web browser.
Finding the right information online depends on your tools. Web browsers and searh engines becomes more and more advanced. Bookmarking sites and other social media sites are the latest trend. You may discover many good sites on Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com and new social media sites are launched daily. The digital revolution is more silent, but much faster than the industrial revolution.
Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, we are a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 4 billion.What has infosys in common with Google? Both companies are dynamic and adapt to changes. Both companies started we small resources but soon become large companies. In a world of equal opportunities other small companies will have a similar potential. But competition is fierce and a few suceed. Online banking and more generally online business will reduce the cost of financial and other services dramatically. And it may favour companies like Infosys because of the relatively lower wage level in India than in the west. Those companies that understand the technological and cultural trends will be tomorrows winners. Information and communication logistics are extremely important in this evolution.
Depending on what you searh for, you may use a search engine or a portal you already know. There are a lot of sites that
compare prices. On the "Tools" menu of the above toolbar, you find more advanced tools like Newprosoft's Web
Content Extractor or Visual Web Spider. The last is a fully automated, multithreaded web crawler that allows you to index
and collect specific web pages on the internet. In other words, you can configure your own search engine on your desktop. Search operators are a great way to target your search. Example: You want to find US web directories. Google site:*.us + web directory and you find both regional, general and global web directories to browse. You find more directories if you use the same search where you replace .us with .co.uk since you find directores from countries in the former British commonwealth like New Zealand in the last search.
We will not repeat web searching here, since it is fully covered on the sister page, SurfToolbar where we have made our own meta search engine too. Resources related to social media sites are discussed on another sister site, CyberToolbar. This site will concentrate on web browsing. For that reason it is important to choose a good web browser and configure it to fit your needs. For a time it has been known that Google has worked on their own borwser, and some believed it was the Mozilla browser. But on august 2nd 2008, Google gives another fresh look at their browser called Google Chrome.
"So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web. All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build".
Read more about the Google Browser at WPW. Some even call it an operating system. You may improve your web browsing / surfing by following the hints on DigitalStart. That means that you configure the browser to fit your needs. More precisesly
- Use the speed dial.
- Use your own personal toolbar.
- Add search engines and choose your default engine.
- Choose another searh engine as the default searh engine on the speed dial page.
It is very easy to configure Opera to seamlessly fit your personal needs. To cite from their site:
"Adding new searches Opera comes with a useful set of default search engines, but you may want to add some of your own favorite searches to the mix. Adding a new search is most conveniently done as follows: (My addition: CTRL + F12 gives you an overview)
- Go to the site that has the search you want.
- Right-click the search field.
- Select "Create search" from the context menu.
- Edit the name of the search engine to your liking.
- Add a short keyword to be able to use the search engine directly from the address field, as described above.
- Click "OK", and the new search is added and can be used anywhere within Opera.
So by using your personal toolbar, configuring your speed dial page and installing your favourite search engines you can dramatically improve your web browsing and surfing using the Opera web browser.
Browsetoolbar is a colletion of international and regional links to:
- Portals.
- Directories.
- Archieves.
- Libraries
- Related resources
that we have found surfing the web since its start. Below you find some important resources:
- Webproworld: Why Opera is the most secure and best web browser?
- Simon Willison: Better living through bookmarklets
- Latitude/Longitude Distance Calculation: Northern Arizona University
- Measuring the digital world: comScore
- SE and Web Directory for UK: Great British Pages
- UK distributed search engine: Majestic12
- Directories: WebSearchWorkshop
- Browse magazines and newspapers: AllYouCanRead
- The deep web directory: CompletePlanet
- Art: Encyplopedia.
- SimplyTheBest: Friends, blogs, games etc.
- Knowledgebase: Faqts.
- Internet Search Engine database: ISEdb.
- Open directory project: dmoz.
- Internet Archive: Archive.org.
- Public Information Research: Namebase.org.
- The Internet Public Library: ipl.
- Encyclopedia and reference for everything related Star Trek: Memory-Alpha.
- Free online-dictionary of Computing: FOLDOC.
- Websites popularity by country: miniRank
- Reach search results: Knowledgestorm.
- Empowering Webmasters: Search-This.
- Article SE Directory: GoArticles.
- The free online dictionary: TheFreeDictionary.
- Origins, history, evolution etc.: WWWords
- The directory of directories: DirectoryArchives
- BoradCast yourself: You Tube.
- Yahoo service: UpComing.
- Kung Fu Hustle: StupidVideos.
- A place for friends: MySpace.
- Microsoft: LiveEarth.
- Connecting people: FaceBook
- Circle of Friends: FriendCircles
- User powered content: Digg
- Don’t Digg Being Dugg: Cre8Pc
- Social bookmarking: del.icio.us
- Store, search, sort and share photos: Flickr
- Sign up with friends: Tagged
- Your personal web file: Furl
- Popular site for people: Squido
- World wide internet television: wwwiTV.
- The free encyclopedia: Wikipedia.
- Online computer dictionary: Webopedia.
- Online dictionary, encyclopedia etc.: Answers.
- Worlds Best Websites: WorldBestWebsites
- Blogs and breaking news: Technocrati
- BBC: History.
- BBC News: Scrollable displays set to debut
- Community for E-Commerce and Internet Professionals: IW
- Uncyclopedia: the content-free encyclopedia.
- BlinkBits: Share bits of wisdom.
- Looking for a job: monster
- World's leading career network: monster GEO
- International White and Yellow Pages: Wayp
- Climate, flags, maps, countries ...: Geographic
- Business Search: Ask City
- Browse for books: Safari Book's Online
- Compare Book Prices: BookFinder4u
- Customer Relation Management: CRMindustry
- Top downloads: Download
- Downloads: Bestsoftware4download
- The internet movie database: IMDb
- Instant music discovery: iLike
- Royal Crown Revue music website!: RCR
- Share your photos, videos and audio: twango
- Great deals on travel: lastminute
- Buzzle: Intelligent life of the Web
- Discover new sites: StumbleUpon
- It is not news it is: Fark.
- What is new online: Reddit.
- Find great blogs: fuelmyblog
- The Trusted Source for Company Information: EDGARonline
- Computer Dictionary Online: CDOnline
- The WWW Virtual Library: Vlib
- List of web directories: Wikipedia.
- The jungle: Jungle World.
- GumTree: Londons online community.
- Largest Message Boards and Forums: Big Boards
- Free content articles: iSnare.
- Your business gateway to east Europe and Russia: Wbj.pl.
- UEFA EURO 2012: Official website.
- Ukraine official gateway: Ukraine.
- Tv over the internet: UkraineTv.
- Committee to protect journalists: CPJ.
- Quality sites on the web: WebWorld
- Popular free web directory: My Green Corner
- Video mixing for all of us: eyespot
- Breaking new media news: MasterNewMedia
- Navigate smarter and safer: OpenDNS
- Guidance from people searching the Internet for information: About.
- Solve word puzzles and crosswords: WordNavigator.
- The leading online Yellow Pages directory service: SuperPages
- The visual web directory: SymbioPolis
- Your online world in one place: GetLive
- Remember websites: BlinkList
- Global news map in different languages: Marumushi Newsmap
- What are the best Web 2.0 apps?: Webware
- Expert Authors Sharing Their Best Ezine Articles: Ezine Articles
- An alternative way to browse the web: CraigsList
- Just another way to browse: kijiji
- Free online bookmarks: Spurl
- Social bookmarking: Simpy
- Software for Windows and Mac OS X: Collectorz
- ViewVC: Browser interface for CVS etc.
- Tall Street: Help the little Guy
- Voice of America: VOANews
- NDparking: WebDatum
- Pico: Create you own page
- LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
- Website for women: Womens bits
- Women's Portal: NewWomen
- Men's Portal: AskMen
- Create personalized content: Lycos
- Meet you there - Worlds biggest Chat: Lycos
- Worlds largest dating site: Match
- Free dating: FirstDate
- Free dating site: PlentyofFish
- Reuniting friends: BatchMates
- Device drives download: DF.net
- Meta data SE: BrowseEngine
- Closeouts: FreshDrop
- Top List: Webmaster Forums
- Top List: Social Media
- FF add-on: Yslow
- Integrates with FF: Firebug
- Traditional music: Smithsonian Global Sound
- Activeminds: Blogs
