The SEO Tool That May Make You Switch to Google Chrome, by Ann Smarty, Search Engine Journal (May 10)

This is a reason to switch to Chrome. This SEO-Sites-Tool extension for Chrome delivers a wealth of information that searchers can use to evaluate the authority and status of a site.

+ Google page rank
+ backlinks from Yahoo Site Explorer
+ Alexa traffic details
+ number of results for the site: command at Google and Bing
+ Overview of the Domain Presence in Social Media – delicious bookmarks, stumbleupon views etc.

A warning shows when you install the extension that SEO-Tools has access to your browsing history and private data at websites, but the Privacy Policy from the creator says – “This plugin does not collect any web history or site data… i had to use a few scripts i wrote on my servers but they dont save any data on the urls they analyze”