So many toolbars, so little time
Dogpile Toolbar offers, among other niceties, a scrolling ticker of RSS feeds. From their site:
Add Dogpile to your browser and search from anywhere on the Web.
The FREE Dogpile Search Toolbar installs in seconds and includes:
- Web Search - Find the best results from the Web's leading search engines.
- White Pages - Look up residential listings from around the U.S.
- Yellow Pages - Access business listings easily from one location.
- Popup Blocker - Block those annoying popup ads forever!
NEW! Ticker - Get the latest news and information delivered directly to your ticker.
- Ticker Customization - Control the ticker's speed, size and scrolling direction.
- RSS Tool - Add any type of ticker feed, including news, summaries and blogs.
- SearchSpy - Watch scrolling terms to see what people are searching for in real-time.
- NEW! Cursor Search - Search any word(s) from a Web page or Word document by right-clicking your mouse.
Just to make matters more interesting, HotBot has just released a new toolbar that offers advanced search of not only the web and RSS feeds, but also adds the ability to index and search e-mail and files on your local drive. Here are links to the Hotbot Desktop toolbar and an excellent review by InfoToday:
Hotbot Desktop toolbar
InfoToday Review