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Sneek-a-peek

Google should add the sneak-a-peek tool that Wisenut provides

         

pgsbs

12:20 pm on Dec 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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When I'm surfing the internet as a user instead of as a webmaster, than I like Google for it's results. Google provides interesting sites that actually contain information about the subjects I was looking for.

Wisenut has a very handy tool in the searchresults: sneak-a-peek. This tool gives you the opportunity to view a website within a frame in the searchresults. Very handy, because if the website isn't quite what you were looking for, you can close the frame easily and look further.

It would be a great improvement if Google would add this tool to it's searchresults.

Robert Charlton

6:04 am on Dec 30, 2003 (gmt 0)

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pgsbs -Are you aware that Google has a "Cached" link for most of its results, which is probably what inspired the WiseNut "sneak-a-peek"?

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Google takes a snapshot of each page examined as it crawls the web and caches these as a back-up in case the original page is unavailable. If you click on the "Cached" link, you will see the web page as it looked when we indexed it...

Not exactly the same, but, using right click, it enables perhaps a quicker look at the page than loading the site does, while keeping you at Google. The cache, if you're unaware of it, is a very controversial feature among some of the webmasters on the board.