When we first started browsing the web, the easiest and quickest way to find similar websites was to locate your favourite site and similar follow the web links on the 'Links' page. Most sites contained a 'Links' page which enabled you to follow and store sites you thought were of interest. As soon as Ask, Yahoo and Google started to take over the search engine market, it became far more commercialised and we now rely on these search engines to find relevant sites. However, due to the commercialism of the engines, certain sites tend to appear closer to the top of the list and you have dig deep down in the search results.

SimilarWeb 0.8.5 for Firefox is an add-on that enables you to load your favourite site and then see a list of similar sites which you can use as an alternative.

SimilarWeb link.

05 Jun 2009