Comments on: McSearchPreview – a better GooglePreview?

By: markoni george

markoni george — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:16:06 +0000

version 1.5 has an anonymizing feature

By: jules

jules — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:09:15 +0000

Don’t forget to mention the profanity in the source in the new version! It’s fucking fabulous!

There should be a checkbox in the extension options to remove the affiliate bunk if you want to… there’s no sense carly benefitting from code he snaked from another extension.

By: Rory Parle

Rory Parle — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For some reason Google is now giving me all my search results as redirects so this extension is giving me "preview" images of google.com. It works fine for google.ie. I agree that the Alexa thumbs are much more useful than the Thumbshots ones.

By: Carlo Zottmann

Carlo Zottmann — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the nice review, Chu Yeow! :)

Rory, please mail me the URL of the page with the screwed up search results (carlo@g-blog.net). I can’t reproduce these search results, but I already know how to counter the problem. ;) So any helpful URL is highly appreciated.

As for the Amazon affiliate code — Alexa is sometimes linking Amazon products on their pages, and if people decide to click thru to those products and then actually purchase anything, I’m getting a small percentage of the sale. Not much, tho, and it sure is not the reason why I added the “Site Info” links (I really liked having a one-click access to some more details about a particular site), but since Alexa/Amazon are offering the referral program… heck, why not. :) No harm done, I think. (Same goes for the Amazon search results.)

By: Martey

Martey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To Carlo:

It would be nice if you disclosed the fact about the referral program on the extension’s home page, like the author of GooglePreview did..

By: Carlo Zottmann

Carlo Zottmann — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, you’re right. Will do. The info is in the About dialog since 1.0, tho.

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