Research Bookmarklets

Special automated functions can be stored as favourites and displayed as clickable buttons on your browser's toolbar. This page contains research-related bookmarklets (or "favelets") that provide useful functions related to pages you are visiting. Thanks to Jesse Rudman, Codehouse, Squarefree and any other creator.

Installation instructions for Internet Explorer users can be found here

Research
Archived Cached Date Check Alexa
Look up a site's "traffic" and other details.
Up a Directory increment decrement Google translate
Display
Zoom Images Off Zap Plugins Right Clicker
Disable CSS Zap colours  
Investigative (for Internet Explorer 6 and under)
Validate Email Yahoo Profile USENET Profile Anonymouse
WHOIS  (find site owners through domain name registration details)
whois irc
quick & simple
 
whois cool
website's whois, IP address & server details
whois dt
Domaintools.com advanced features
whois past
previous registration records (subscription only)
Reverse IP (find other domains on a server, but always check and corroborate)
on server ddb
then click on the "number of domains" link.
on server wh
then click on the "number of domains" link.
on server dt
subscription only service from domaintools.com
on ip block
"Net block owner" finds domains on entire IP block
Firefox Add-ons
showIP
displays a site's IP in the corner of your window & does whois search.
Errorzilla
gives you access to Google cache and the Wayback machine, if the page you wanted is down.