“The Best Way to Keep Ahead of the Top News, Content, Videos and Jobs on the Web Today”

The Web 2.0 Toolbar is a free “hyperaggregator” that combines the top headlines, functionality and content of a large number of web 2.0 blogs, news sites, picture sites, video sites, Jobs, PR, and link sites into a simple format that can be scanned in less than a minute. The toolbar also includes the ability to search over 40 sites and submit content to over 30 social bookmarking sites.

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I have long thought that social bookmarking and ranking sites like del.icio.us, digg, and StumbleUpon could be used to enhance current web search results. In March I argued that that StumbleUpon could easily be used for “enhancing or augmenting traditional search engine rankings.” Some people, like Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, already think that del.icio.us provides better search results than Google.

Rand argues that del.icio.us results are more timely, more focused on his demographic, higher quality, and more diverse. He concedes, however, that del.icio.us results do not always list the best first, sometimes lack relevance, and are either ten times better or ten times worse than Google depending on your view.

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