Scandoo search engine plugin - surfing for dummies?

recommended by SarahInTampa, tips from ClifNotes, Sept 2006, permalink

In May of this year, Sarah mentioned this website in her tech blog.

Scandoo Well, maybe not just for dummies, but for grandmas and grandpas and luddites and more, there comes a new service called Scandoo. The service acts as a front-end ... to protect you from visiting websites that spread viruses or spyware ... (read more)

Recently I've gotten a little bit aggravated with some of the false positive results that I was getting from McAfee's SiteAdvisor program, so I went back to Scandoo for another look. The results there seem to be nearly as good. When you perform a search at Scandoo, it puts up a little icon beside each result telling you how trustworthy they think each website is. Nice, very nice.

Is it better than SiteAdvisor? I don't know, but I did find out that I can install it in my FireFox web browser's default search box. I found the search plugin at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/. Now when I want to check Google for an answer, Scandoo is there with me, adding their opinions to my already well honed sixth sense for website nasties.

Install the Firefox Scandoo search plugin

I also found another plugin at Scandoo, and a plugin for Internet Explorer is there as well.

Quote from Scandoo
Scandoo is based on ScanSafe’s web security technology that currently scans billions of web requests for corporate employees around the world. ScanSafe software developers were often asked by their friends and family if they could protect home Internet use in the same way that they protect corporate users. When our lab came up with safe searching technology we thought it was such a good idea that we wanted to make it available to all.



http://www.scandoo.com


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