Gabhile is a tool that helps you to roll your own search engine with Google. Create categories and add your trusted/favorite sites and get more relevant search results. Some other features are finding backlinks, organise favorites etc.
May 1, 2006 -- Gabhile is a Google Search Personalization Tool that allows you roll your own search engines and adds some nice features to your google search. It uses Google web APIs.
Follow the steps to get Gabhile working for you.
1. You need a Google API key to make Gabhile work for you. Get your free Google API key at :
https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.google.com%2Fcreatekey&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.google.com%2Fcreatekey
Sign
in your account and the key will be mailed to you in your Gmail inbox.
2. Goto www.admintasks.com/gabhile to see what Gabhile all about
3. Download it from http://www.admintasks.com/gabhile/download.htm
4. Install it.
5. Goto the folder Docs under C:program filesGabhile and then open up readme.txt.
6. Jump to the configuration section in the file and follow the instructions.
7. Start using Gabhile right away!
Prominent features:
1. Search your favorite sites:
Create categories
and add your favorite/trusted sites to them and then search only those sites. By default it searches the web.10 results from each site in a category get displayed in the result pane. When you click on the side if each result it will open in a different window of its own. The currently selected result is selected in yellow color for easy identification.
Benefits:
• Only gives results from on your trusted sites
• Filters out ‘noise’ in search results
• Drill down to directory level in your favorite
sites. More specific. More relevant.
• You can still search results from the web.
2. Filter by Geography:
If you choose a country then you only get results hosted out of that country.
Benefits::
• Very useful if you want to do some region specific research.
• Useful to find local phone numbers, businesses.
3. Include and Exclude terms:
If you find that your results are being shown only from one or two sites and you want to exclude the term from your search term then select the
term right click on it and just choose exclude and the word/phrase/sentence and press search again. It will be excluded .Similarly if you see a word/phrase in the results and you want to add it to the search terms to narrow down your search then just select the term and right click and then just choose include and the term gets included.
Benefits:
• Get rid of ‘noise’ words in your results quickly.
• Add desired terms to your search quickly.
4. Add Bookmarks:
After viewing certain results if
you like them and want to make one or multiple bookmarks just check the boxes next to them and click on Add2Favorites and all the links get bookmarked with the title as keywords you entered to get the results. You might change the keywords too while adding the bookmark by just changing the text in search for text box
Benefits:
• Search through previous bookmarks. Save time.
• Never loose bookmarks by accidental overwriting of windows bookmarks.
5. Save Search results to disk:
Check one/more
checkboxes against the results to save them to disk. The files get saved into your Docs folder under Gabhile folder.
Benefits:
• Never loose a search result when web pages are off sites. Be ready fro anything
• Saving file to your own system is more secure than saving files on internet sites. Be Safe
6. Springboard New Searches:
When you want to do further research on the same topic start by looking at what you already have. Goto the third tab called search bookmarks and then enter a keyword
in the box and pres the button next to it. If there is a bookmark you have earlier then Gabhile will select the keyword where ever it appears and then just click on the links to open them in your browser
Benefits:
• Prevent duplicates in bookmarks caused by bookmarking same result multiple times. Avoid confusion.
• Share links with pals (upcoming feature)
7. Find Backlinks:
When you want to find backlinks to a certain search result just right click anywhere in the result and choose links2page
and Gabhile find the pages that link back to this page.
Benefits:
• Helps in relating organizations. Be well informed
• Helps your research. Be efficient
8. Chart backlinks:
When you have unto 5 URLs that you want to compare in terms of backlinks then simply enter them press the ‘find links’ button. A progress bar kicks off and comes to stop only when backlinks for all URLs are found. Get a 2D/3D chart with a click of the ‘chart’ button.
Benefits:
• Track site/page popularity. Get real
•
Copy/paste the chart onto your own reports in Word/PowerPoint/Excel.
9. Change colors:
You can change the colors as you like. Click on the ‘set color’ button at the bottom of Gabhile. See the effect of various colors and then press ‘save settings’ button to set the color. Next time you fire it up Gabhile takes up your chosen color.
10. See through Gabhile:
Click on ‘see through’ button to see through the Gabhile window. You can see what’s behind Gabhile. Click the button again to return to
normal view.
Contact:
Abhijit Vyas
http://www.admintasks.com/gabhile/
65-91450710
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