Legend for FreeSearching

On This Page:

Top of Page Icon | External Links To Websites | Internal Links | Snap Shots | Acronyms & Abbreviations | Browser Settings

Top of Page Icon

Hovering the mouse arrow over the little pyramid       changes it's color, while a title box appears stating "top of page". Clicking on this little pyramid       throughout FreeSearching will take you to the "top of the page". The pyramid may vary a bit in appearance but it performs the same.

External Links To Websites

All external (or destination) links are color sensitive and look like this:

   Unvisited External Links

   Visited External Links

   Mouse-Over External Links

Internal Links Within FreeSearching

All internal links are color sensitive and look like this:

   Unvisited Internal Links or Unvisited Internal Links

   Visited Internal Links or Visited Internal Links

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Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

In the Summer of 2007, I installed a nice little tool on FreeSearching called Snap Shots that enhances external links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave FreeSearching, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

But should you decide this visual preview is not for you, just click the "Options" icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

In summary: When you mouse-over this icon a visual preview displays. If you only mouse-over the Link, no visual preview will be displayed. Whether you click either the Link or the you will still go to the destination website.

Acronyms & Abbreviations and Definitions

Throughout Freesearching.com I have used various acronyms and abbreviations in the text. Please look for the dots beneath an acronym or abbreviation. When your mouse pointer rests over these dots a "Question Mark" should appear while the name for the acronym or the word for the abbreviation should be displayed in a title box. "abbr" is the abbreviation of abbreviation.

Also throughout Freesearching.com are definitions and tips which are designated by [dfn] or [tip]. Please note the dfn and tip are within brackets, [dfn] [tip], and have dots beneath them. When your mouse pointer rests over these dots a "Question Mark" should appear while the definition or tip should be displayed in a title box.

The brackets differentiate between the dfn or tip and the acronym or abbreviation.

Browser Settings

Please note: Should you choose to turn off images or javascript or java applets, your viewing of Freesearching.com will be impaired. For the best experience please keep your browser at it's default settings. Use of the IE browser may view Freesearching.com best, yet Firefox will also render Freesearching.com very well. Thanks for visiting.