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Say Hello to The New Version of SimilarWeb

Our development team had been working around the clock during the last few weeks, and now its ready -  give it up to the brand new version of SimilarWeb. With a new Toolbar option and addiotional new cool features, the new SimilarWeb is better than ever.

the first big change you’ll notice is the new Menu that appears after the installation is complete:

You have only two quick decisions to make:

1. In addition to the permanent Sidebar option, you can now choose between two additional options- a Toolbar, or a Menu Button (you can choose them both if you like). Don’t worry, you can always change your mind by going to the SimilarWeb option menu.

2. Do you want to use our new Special search feature ? we recommended this feature a lot, it makes your search results much more friendlier and easier to choose from. By choosing to try this feature, you also helping to keep SimilarWeb a free product, so go ahead and give it a try. (Thanks..)

If you choose the Toolbar option, you’ll discover a whole new way to use SimilarWeb.

  Toggle Button – Toggles the sidebar in one click

  Rating - you can now give ratings to the sites you like (or dislike..). You can also see what are the average ratings the site had received from other people.

   Similar Sites Button - Instead of opening the side bar, you can now discover the best similar sites in a push of a button.  

  Top Sites Button - This is a brand new feature in SimilarWeb! You can now discover what are the best sites in the category of the site you currently view.

   Buzz - One click and you immediately receive all the latest Tweets on each site while browsing

   Articles - Read related articles on the sites you visit

   Reviews - Instantly write or read reviews on the site you currently view

  Share Button - Its now easier than ever to share with your friends what you find on the web

On the right side of the Toolbar you can see the “Settings” button.     This is the regular SimilarWeb Option menu, but now much more accessible. One click and you can personalize SimilarWeb as you wish.

Choosing the Menu Button option will enable you to keep the familiar menu Button from the previous version.   

That’s all for now, we hope you’ll enjoy the new version and keep on discovering new websites. Please let us know what you think. We would love to receive all kind of feedback, good and bad. just send us a mail to info@similarweb.com and we promise to write you back before you could say “SimilarWeb- Discover without searching”…

A New way to Share Your Ideas

We had recently launched a new forum where you can share your thoughts and ideas on how to improve SimilarWeb. You can also vote for ideas submitted by other users.

All you need to do is just go to similarweb.uservoice.com and start voting for your favorite ideas.

Achieving the Million User Mark

Since it had been launched, SimilarWeb has been installed by one million people!

We are very proud to announce that as of today, SimilarWeb has been installed by more than one million people in FireFox alone!

SimilarWeb’s new features - 

the latest version we had released a couple of days ago is only the beginning. After adding the new features (you can read all about them two posts below…), we had started working on some new features that you would defiantly like. Updates on the new version will be published soon.

Come and enjoy the SimilarWeb experience -

If you haven’t tried out SimilarWeb, now’s a great time ! Installing it is as simple as clicking the download button, and no signing in is required.

Download SimilarWeb - www.similarweb.com

If you want to help us translate SimilarWeb’s Mozilla page, just go to http://bit.ly/b16lh1. Thanks !!

IT’S FINALLY HERE

So as most of you know there is a new version of SimilarWeb. We are happy to announce that it is finally here. With this new release come exciting new features and some minor fixes. Here is a short guide to all the new cool stuff.

New Features:
* New Icon:  We have a cool new icon thanks to everyone who voted for it on our Facebook page.

* Resize the sidebar:  Now you are able to resize the side bar. When you open the sidebar it opens to a predetermined width. Now your are able to stretch the sidebar to any desirable size. All you need to do is just drag the right side of the sidebar with your mouse and stretch it to any length you like. The wider you make the sidebar the more information on the results u will be able to see.

 * New size for the status bar button, now smaller than ever:  For your convenience we have made the status bar button much       smaller. It still has all the known features (open/close the side bar + a right click direct approach to the option menu) but now in a smaller button that won’t take a lot of space in your status bar.

* Improved voting design:  check out the sleek new voting design.

* New SimilarProducts: Instantly compare prices, find deals, and see similar items as you shop. Works on over 65 million products in hundreds of US online retailers (including Amazon, eBay and Google Shopping). It works by showing a little button on the products picture, when you click the button another window pops up with the same product at different prices all across the web. It also shows similar products to the one your searching.

* Added domains to toolbar button menu results: 

 * Added Sponsored results to the sidebar: We know that Sponsor adds are very annoying but come on guys that’s how we put food on the table.

Fixes:
 * No results in sidebar bug: AKA the white sidebar.

  * Various small bugs: SimilarWeb has greatly improved it’s performance, solving many bugs, and enhancing various technical issues.
 
We hope you will continue to enjoy SimilarWeb. you can follow us on Twitter and fan us on Facebook to receive news, update alerts, and what’s hot on the web today.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/SimilarWeb-A-great-tool-for-your-browser/58055805138?ref=ts

http://www.twitter.com/SimilarWeb

Please continue sending us your comments and requests, we are working very hard to make your wishes come true.

Surviving The “White Screen of Death”

last week our blog experienced a little technical hiccup known as “the white screen of death”. which for those of you that are not familiar with it, it’s simply the worst thing that can happen in Wordpress!! no matter what you do, you cant get threw the white screen that is shown where your blog once was.

so after a long struggle, we won back our blog and now we are moving it to the great platform of Tumblr.

we are now in the middle of improving the blog, adding new features and writing new posts. so please be patient and we promise you will love the new blog even more than the old one.

if you have any suggestions or feedback please leave a comment or send us a mail to info@similarweb.com.

come back soon…