A selection of external tools are available from the Tools menu. By default, the following tools are available:

• Google. Searches for the selected text using Google.
  
  
• Feedster. Searches for the selected text using Feedster (an RSS search engine).
  
  
• Technorati. Searches for the selected text using Technorati (an RSS search engine).
  
  
• rssSearch. Searches for the selected text using rssSearch (an RSS search engine).
  
  
• News Is Free. Searches for the selected text at News Is Free (an RSS news service).
  
  
• Syndic8. Searches for the selected text at Syndic8 (an RSS directory).
  
  
• Translate page. Translates the current page using Google.
  
  
• Dictionary. Looks up the selected word using dictionary.com.

For those tools that use the currently selected text, if there is nothing selected on the current page, they will use whatever is in the clipboard instead.

It is easy to add more tools to this menu and details on how to do this can be found in the appendix.