September 17, 2004

You will see a small Yahoo icon on your Companion Toolbar, displaying the Web Rank™ value of the site you are currently visiting. The value will be between 1 and 10.

Yahoo’s Web Rank™ algorithm numbers are calculated using a sophisticated scoring formula developed in Yahoo’s labs that provides a measure of the popularity of the Web page or Web site that you are viewing.

Installing Yahoo’s new Web Rank™ toolbar is easy. With the help of Yahoo’s Companion Toolbar, you will have the option of enabling the Web Rank™ feature. If you want to use it, choose the "Install with Web Rank" button on the configuration panel and the Web Rank™ feature will be enabled during the installation of your new toolbar. It took me less than two minutes to do the whole thing.

Once you have it installed on your machine, should you ever change your mind, you can turn it off if you want. Doing this is easy: from the Yahoo Companion Toolbar, just click the "Toolbar Settings" button and uncheck "Enable Web Rank." That way, the Companion Toolbar will stop collecting anonymous URL data about the sites you visit once Web Rank™ has been disabled.

If you are running your toolbar from a corporate network and if you need to disable it, you will need to block http://cpn.yahoo-webrank.net at your firewall or proxy server.

This will disable the Web Rank feature from sending any anonymous URL data back to Yahoo’s servers.

Do you really need the Yahoo Companion Toolbar?
You don’t need to install the Companion Toolbar if you don’t want too. Yahoo’s Web Rank™ feature is opt-in only and it’s not required to install the Companion Toolbar if you don’t need it. If you decide to have it installed, you will be asked if you would like to enable the Web Rank™ feature in the toolbar.

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