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SimilarSites.com Launches New Competitive Intelligence Features!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:45:00 -0500

Tel Aviv, December 19, 2011 - After launching at the beginning of 2009, SimilarSites.com has been the leading place to find competitive and similar sites for any website around the web. Reaching millions of unique users per month, the company recently rolled out a major make over and added new features to deliver even better results. Visitors to the website can now use these tools for a variety of competitive intelligence analysis. Here is an overview of the new offerings:

Enhanced Results

SimilarSites.com has made changes to its algorithm that deliver more targeted similar website recommendations. Websites are now characterized by specific tags, leading to a convenient browsing experience, ideal for competitive research. The “Also Visited” results, which SimilarSites.com is one of the few websites around the web that provides this service, delivers a list of 10 websites that a person who visits a website is also likely to visit. The results are calculated and show their corresponding Affinity Score, a measurement of the likelihood that someone is going to visit another specific website. Lastly, the Top Sites results have also been improved which show a birds eye view of up to 25 similar websites based on a related topic or category.

Keyword Density

Keyword Density measures how many times a specific word is used on a webpage in comparison to the total amount of text on that specific page. It can be used to gauge the quantity of specific content used in a website, which can play a major role in page rank and search positioning.

The revamped SimilarSites.com results calculate and show the keyword density for a website’s top 15 terms. With the click of a button, a user can find similar websites that also share Keyword Density for a specific word. The comparative feature can be used to understand which websites share similar keywords.

Eye Tracking Heatmap

SimilarSites.com partnered with Feng-GUI, a visual analysis company, to incorporate their eye tracking simulation into the SimilarSites results. The new “Heatmap” tab shows a screen shot of a website’s homepage along with the corresponding color-coordinated image which predicts how a human eye views the website upon first arrival. Heatmaps for four similar websites are also shown which makes for easy competitive comparisons.

Knowing that on average, website owners only have 5 seconds to capture users attention, this technology enables webmasters to optimize the placement of content to maximize the chances of capturing users attention.

Overall, these improvements have made Similarsites a more resourceful tool for anyone doing competitive Internet research. Visit SimilarSites.com to see the new changes and start discovering similar websites today.

SimilarSites.com made OCEA's Top 150 Websites List

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:29:41 -0400

SimilarSites.com was added to OCEA’s list of to Top 150 Most Useful Websites. Check out the list to find more great sites:

http://ohiocea.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/150-of-the-most-useful-websites-on-the-internet/

SimilarSites.com Announces 9 New International Websites!

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:49:00 -0400

The SimilarSites.com team is proud to have recently debuted 9 new international websites for the following markets:

Japan, China, Turkey, Australia, South Africa, Poland, Switzerland, New Zealand and Norway

Let us know what you think and don’t forget to email us if we are missing any of your favorite local sites.

SocialWeb is in the House !

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:22:00 -0400

We are pleased to announce the release of the SocialWeb add-on to Google Chrome.

This add-on allows you to find new websites, pages, and articles through your friends “likes” and comments on Facebook.

The very first version of the SocialWeb add-on is available for download at this : LINK

This great new extension of SocialWeb gives you the availability of combining the search for new and exciting websites with the reliability of suggestions from your friends on Facebook. This add-on, much like SimilarGroup’s “SimilarWeb” add-on, is simple and very easy to use. The SocialWeb add-on also allows you to write comments of your own directly into the add-on. We hope you enjoy the newest addition to SimilarGroup’s family of web, and Facebook-friendly products.

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Working Super Hard :)

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:23:00 -0400

Hey Everyone! We at SimilarGroup have been working super hard to bring you some new and exciting features!

We are thrilled about the launching of our new international sites for SimilarSites.com !

That now our friends from Spain, Brazil, Germany, and the Netherlands can also enjoy what everyone else has been raving about…!

After reading hundreds of emails from soo many of you, we are happy to announce our new SimilarWeb Addon available for our Opera and Safari, the version for safari and Opera is much lighter than our Firefox one ( only having the Similar Sites feature )

Are you just as excited as we are? Share with your friends!

Coming soon to SimilarWeb!

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:11:00 -0400

SimilarWeb is proud to announce its new “Reviews” option. Simply click on the icon in your SimilarWeb sidebar to get started.

You can rate the website you are viewing by clicking on the stars, and then you can read what others are saying about the site, and even add a review of your own!

SimilarWeb Review

Customize your SimilarWeb!

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:57:00 -0500

Our users often asking us - “If I don’t like toolbar, but I want to have some buttons from toolbar, what should I do?” We decided to make little manual about customizing SimilarWeb plugin. Check it now:

SimilarWeb Customize

SimilarSites is going International

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:39:00 -0500

To provide our users with the best content available for their SimilarSites
experience we have recently launched the international division of our website
featuring a Russian, United Kingdom and French page.

Coming soon will be the installments of our Canadian and Spanish websites to
provide even more content of our users.

The Wind of Changes in the air at SimilarGroup!

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:53:00 -0500

This last little while has been very busy at SimilarGroup.

We implemented many updates and changes to our products:

SimilarWeb and SimilarSites.com are now one …
We implemented a new design for TopSite.com and SimilarSites.com
New Version for SimilarWeb is on the way…

SimilarGroup is on The Next Web!

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:05:00 -0500

The Next Web wrote a great article about us! Go ahead and check it out at http://bit.ly/gDRIv7

SimilarWeb 1.1.9 for Firefox is coming soon!

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:06:00 -0500

Similarweb 1.1.9 for Firefox is just around the corner. We’ve read your feedback and made a few changes that we’re pretty sure you’ll love.

First off, the menu button has been completely redesigned to become a simple access point to all of SimilarWeb’s features. And don’t worry, while we may have changed the look, all of your favorite features are still there, easier to use than ever before.

Clicking on the drop-down arrow brings a new menu down, containing all of the previous features in one convenient box, from TopSites to Reviews. Clicking on the tab will bring you to that feature for the current page your on, all without the hassle of having to open a new page or tab to find out what you want to know.

If the sidebar was more up your alley, the new menu button incorporates that as well. Clicking on the SimilarGroup icon opens and closes the toolbar without all the hassle that many toolbars require, letting you have the information at your fingertips when you so desire and easily getting it out of your way when you’re done.

SimilarWeb 1.1.9 will be available to download at Similarweb.com in the near future. As always we welcome your questions and feedback at http://www.similarweb.com/support/feedback.aspx

Our Technology is Spreading!

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:10:39 -0500

You now can find our technology in the new search engine Blekko. Launched this week, Blekko is a very promising new search engine that uses a new system of searching known as Slashtags, which gives you the option to target your search in a group of sites. Slashtags is a great new way to search, and a great way to find exactly what you’re looking for. For example, if you use the slashtag /techblog when searching for Microsoft, you get all the technology blogs for Microsoft. Using whichever slashtag you like, such as /similar, /amazon, /news, or /date, or really anything, slashtags make it very simple to quickly filter your results to exactly what you are looking for (/similar is the best in our opinion of course).

After a close partnership with the Blekko team we at SimilarGroup were able to power the technology for getting similar sites to any site in their search engine. Simply go to Blekko.com and search “bbc /similar” and see our technology in action in their search engine.

We Love Our Users!

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:06:00 -0400

During our latest update, version 1.1.7, we asked our users what they use SimilarWeb for. First of all, we discovered that you just wanna have fun! More than 78% of our users love SimilarWeb because it helps them find interesting websites to surf. Check out some of what we found out about our users:

Something else we discovered, that we truly weren’t aware of, is the most of our user are older than 46, or maybe our 46 year old users like to answer questionnaires more than others, but we will never know.

For a little bit of juiciness check out the 5 best comments we received…

“Really nice work Thanks. Love SimilarWeb!!”

“It`s great, If you folks advance it more, because when we found something we could find more and more resources about it, you know, the number of resources are getting bigger and this is great tool for that purpose.Thanks alot you guys…hope Success for you.”

“To find content that relates to whatever I’m investigating - it’s very good at finding new sources which are highly relevant generally, so saves me time etc.”

“It’s a tool for every good student.”

“SimilarWeb has made my job so much more efficient. Instead of doing a “wildcard” search on a topic then going through each hit to determine if it is worth the time to read, I now start with SimilarWeb. I can count on there being relevance to what I’m researching in the sites there. If only it had been developed YEARS ago. I’m sure I would have made better more relevant decisions in a fraction of the time.”

These are only some of the comments we’ve received, but we have many more. We love to hear your comments, so make sure to keep them coming!

If you haven’t yet updated to SimilarWeb 1.1.7, go to http://www.similarweb.com/ and check out the latest update.

Introducing the New SimilarWeb Version for FF

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:34:00 -0400

We’d like you to welcome our brand new version of Similarweb for Firefox that includes a couple of improvements we’re sure you’ll enjoy.

We’ve added a new “Search Widget”- Our latest release also includes a widget that enhances your search engine results.

Basically you can now enjoy similar sites results directly inside your favorite search engine (such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing). Simply click the SimilarSites button underneath a result and a couple fantastic alternatives will pop right up, no hassle.

Clicking on the “More Results” button will bring you to www.SimilarSites.com to see all of the similar results.

We’ve expanded the “Review Feature”- In addition to rating sites using the stars you can now also write reviews of websites as well, which are added to a database for everyone to see. Simply click the review button on the toolbar to start writing on your favorite sites.

So that’s it. We hope this helps makes your browsing experience better than ever, and don’t forget to send feedback to info@similarweb.com, we’re always interested in what you have to say.

Check out this great review of SimilarSites.com , We also...

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:20:00 -0400

Check out this great review of SimilarSites.com ,

We also released our new French site: Pages Similaires

New SimilarWeb for Internet Explorer!

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:00:00 -0400

The newest version of SimilarWeb for Internet Explorer is here, and its better than ever! You can check out the sidebar, which is an always there, but unobtrusive way to surf the web on SimilarSites. The best feature we’ve added is a search engine add-on. When you search for anything on the internet, a SimilarSites search is available for each result. Its a very useful feature when trying to find something new. Go download it and try it out for yourself at www .similarweb .com.

SimilarWeb Internet Explorer

SimilarWeb on Tekzilla

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:34:00 -0400

SimilarWeb on Tekzilla

The new look has just arrived to the Firefox version

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:45:00 -0400

Are all of you Firefox users feeling left out because of Chrome’s fancy new version of Similarweb? Well don’t fret over it any longer, because we’re now proud to announce the latest version of SimilarWeb for Firefox, available to download right here at www.similarweb.com. With even more reliability and a few new things thrown in as well, we promise you won’t be disappointed.

First off, we would like to introduce you to our new SimilarWeb logo. But we didn’t stop there; we also redesigned the rest of SimilarWeb to match, allowing you to surf the web not only with power but style as well.

We also revamped the search box. Before, you were stuck with Google for searches, and could only get similar results through the sidebar. However that’s no longer the case, the search box now provides also the option to search for similar sites or top sites, whichever you may happen to need at the moment. To choose, simply click on the down arrow on the right side of the box and your choices will appear.

Be sure to tell us what you think. Questions, comments, and requests are always welcome at info@similarweb.com

also there is our new service for Websites Categorization

Welcome SimilarWeb for Chrome!

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:13:00 -0400

We have some great news for all you Chrome users - we had just released a special version of SimilarWeb especially for Chrome! The very first version of SimilarWeb for Chrome is available for download at www .similarweb .com. The Chrome extension has a brand new interface, which is very simple to use, and extremely intuitive - just a simple button next to the Omnibox (URL bar). This gives you tons of information at your fingertips, when you want it.

SimilarWeb Chrome

The new interface is really simple and fun to use. The extension displays thumbnails of each website, so that you can look at the picture, and right away know what you’re looking at. Below the thumbnail you’ll see the URL and title of the website, to make things even easier. If you don’t like the screenshots, just switch to the list view, which shows you only the title and description of the website.

In the extension, all of your SimilarSites results, TopSite results, Buzz results and the Articles results are just a click away. We added a new Stars feature, so you can now rate the websites as you browse, and share your opinions with all the other users.

Along the bottom of the extension, you’ll find different tabs that allow you to choose between SimilarSites, TopSite, Buzz, Articles and Reviews. Here is a short review of what the tabs do: SimilarSites finds similar websites to the page you’re looking at. TopSite shows you the top websites in the same topic as the site you’re looking at. Buzz finds popular twitter posts regarding the website you’re looking at. Articles shows articles relating to the website you’re looking at. Stars let you rate the website you’re on.

So now that you have all the details, just go to SimilarWeb.com , download the Chrome version and tell us what you think.

Say Hello to The New Version of SimilarWeb

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:19:00 -0400

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”…