Sunday, April 8, 2012

For Firefox Users


If you use Firefox frequently, you can add Z:wordz to your search toolbar.
First, download the browser plugin Add to Search Bar. 
Once it's installed, go to this specially designed Z:wordz page and right-click the search field.
 Select 'Add to Search Bar'.




Fill out the box that appears...
...and Z:wordz will now be available in the toolbar!

Once you've added it to the Search Bar, you can type your keywords inside the toolbar instead of going directly to the main site.


Isn't that neat?

Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Problem with Long URLS

Think you'll remember that in five minutes?

As the cartoon demonstrates, directing people to websites can be a hassle. How do you give them the URL? Emailing it exposes your email address. Writing down that long string of characters could lead to misinterpretation.
Even if you bookmark a site on one computer, switching to another computer means you can't access the bookmark. So you to a search engine to look for the site and get fifty million results...

But not with Z:wordz. With Z:wordz, you enter the URL and up to seven words you associate with that site. When those words are typed into the Z:wordz search form, you're taken directly there. Now you can direct people to websites with a phrase like "best sushi restaurant".

Z:wordz takes you there directly.