One of the advantages of the Google Chrome browser is that Google is actively developing extensions for it. That’s an advantage because it ensures that users do not have to worry (too much) about data security and that popular Google services are supported as extensions for the web browser.
Google Similar Pages is an add-on for the Google Chrome web browser that can help you in the discovery of related or similar websites by suggesting these sites to you when you are visiting websites in Chrome.
While this may not be for everyone, it is certainly interesting if you like to discover new websites based on sites that you are visiting.
It does not matter which sites you are visiting, your favorite tech blog, email services, file hosting websites, shopping sites or search engines as suggestions may be displayed for all of them.
This is usually something that can also be achieved with searches in search engines but the extension makes the process comfortable thanks to its integration in the web browser.
The extension places an icon in the header toolbar of the Google Chrome web browser which display a small overlay window upon activation that suggests four websites that Google has determined to be similar to the one displayed in the browser tab.
A click on the button while visiting Google’s main website for instance suggests Yahoo, Bing, MSN and Wikipedia. It is sometimes the case that some of the suggestions are not as similar as they could be.
Google could for instance improve the suggestion for their homepage by removing MSN and Wikipedia from the list of suggestions to replace them with search engine suggestions.
It would also be nice if there would be an option to display more than four suggestions for similar page but an option to do so is not provided unfortunately.
Google Similar Pages is an extension for the Google Chrome 4 web browser. It is available at the official Google Chrome extension website where it can be installed directly.
Update: The extension returns eight results by default now instead of four. That’s the only change however as there is still no option to adjust the number of results the extension displays. Plus, it appears broken in Chromium.
The newest version looks different.
It uses less screen estate when opened.