siteadvisor.com — SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. They launched a slick redesign today.
Feb 28, 2006 View in Crawl 4
midnightbrewerFeb 28, 2006
"IE7 already does this. Oh did I mention that it's 2x faster than FF?"Not to mention that it's also in beta and not cross-platform.
wgchinnMar 1, 2006
The SiteAdvisor extension is not compatible with BetterSearch 1.9. Multiple checks, x's are displayed and overlayed in the Google display. Choose between safety and displaying the thumbnail; I chose safety (I get tired of cleaning up after unsafe sites or spam sites).
cupofdiceMar 1, 2006
I have been using it since download.com reviewed it, but lately I have to restart firefox to get it working. Still a good idea though.
ericesqueMar 1, 2006
I noticed that the majority of the positive comments which state 'great for your mom, uncle, aunt and your best friend's dog' have perfect grammar and spelling. Methinks these posts are likely PR folks doing their thing.No digg. I really don't need some company to tell me if I'm going to get spam from registering my e-mail address. I pretty well KNOW that I will. Therefore, keep a spam account for signing up for anything AND an unrelated account for personal e-mail. If you really want e-mail from the company you signed up with, simply forward their e-mails to your personal account. There are reasons for filters, but it's not to keep spam out, it's to send e-mails you want to your real e-mail addy.
copernicMar 9, 2006
It looks like a really good way to force out bad sites.
haxx4Apr 27, 2006
Those family-oriented recommendations are questionable to say the least.
drebolaMay 18, 2006
Amazing how easy it is for moms to entertain themselves.
seafoodplateAug 7, 2008
digg.com gets blocked by my Mcafee SiteAdvisor all the time.