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  • jmet
    Super Moderator
    • Nov 2002
    • 8697

    The Toolbar You'll Keep

    Google Toolbar 4 has useful and elegant new features.

    Lately it seems as if everybody and their second cousin has attempted to follow Google's example by cobbling together a browser toolbar. Most of these shortcut collections do little more than push the page content farther below the virtual fold and replace it with a string of ads to the company's sites and services (the Yahoo Toolbar is a prime example of this approach). But it's clear to me, based on a few days of using the beta of Google Toolbar 4, that the first is still the best.

    Topping the list of version 4's new features is type-ahead help in the search text box. In typical Google fashion, the search-term helper is simple, elegant, and useful: As you enter text, a small window pops open below the box, listing popular search terms beginning with those letters. The toolbar remembers past searches, too, and lists them here when appropriate. Credit & More Info: PC World
  • a2j3
    If it aint broke, don't fix it
    • Feb 2006
    • 546

    #2
    Hello Jmet

    I have this tool bar and love it. My kids even use it.
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    • drfsupercenter
      NOT an online superstore
      • Oct 2005
      • 4424

      #3
      I have the normal Google toolbar, and Yahoo (the old one... the new Yahoo is a piece of crap... found that out the hard way, had to do System Restore to fix it), what's the difference? Is it worth it?
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      • Kabuchan
        Digital Video Enthusiast
        Digital Video Enthusiast
        • Apr 2006
        • 399

        #4
        The only toolbar I have is the IE 6. What is the difference? Can it really help?
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        • LT. Columbo
          Demigod of Digital Video
          • Nov 2004
          • 10671

          #5
          Originally Posted by Kabuchan
          The only toolbar I have is the IE 6. What is the difference? Can it really help?
          me too. i like nice and simple.
          "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
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          • photo_angel2004
            Queen of Digital Video
            Queen of Digital Video
            • Jan 2004
            • 3558

            #6
            I like the new Google tool bar, the yahoo one does suck LOL






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            • Kabuchan
              Digital Video Enthusiast
              Digital Video Enthusiast
              • Apr 2006
              • 399

              #7
              Isn't Google one of the worst places to pick up viruses and stuff? And if that's the case, why would you want their toolbar?
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              • Zero G
                Next to Arch Stanton
                • Jan 2006
                • 545

                #8
                Google toolbar works great. A wealth of information available with a few short key strokes.
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                • Gary D
                  Lord of Digital Video
                  Lord of Digital Video
                  • Dec 2005
                  • 2266

                  #9
                  Originally Posted by Kabuchan
                  Isn't Google one of the worst places to pick up viruses and stuff? And if that's the case, why would you want their toolbar?
                  Google is a search engine and is one of my choices because of this. No discussion of this as it may violates the rules as it is a legal matter!

                  Any search engine can direct you to site with viruses.
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                  • anonymez
                    Super Moderator
                    • Mar 2004
                    • 5525

                    #10
                    personally i like to have as much room as possible to view pages. can't stand additional toolbars
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                    • jm1647
                      An Eagles Fan, A MenuShrinker
                      • Apr 2005
                      • 3661

                      #11
                      I loved it when you could make google your default search engine but M$ did something and it doesn't work anymore. Or if it does I missed how to do it.

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                      • Kabuchan
                        Digital Video Enthusiast
                        Digital Video Enthusiast
                        • Apr 2006
                        • 399

                        #12
                        Originally Posted by Gary D
                        Google is a search engine and is one of my choices because of this. No discussion of this as it may violates the rules as it is a legal matter!

                        Any search engine can direct you to site with viruses.
                        I only mentioned the virus stuff because hubby said the systems guy at his work said google was the worst.

                        I use Google too, its a great search engine. How do you think I found digital digest? But when I have a question I use askjeeves.com.
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                        • NightTran
                          King of Digital Video
                          King of Digital Video
                          • Aug 2005
                          • 4224

                          #13
                          Originally Posted by anonymez
                          personally i like to have as much room as possible to view pages. can't stand additional toolbars
                          I like the bigger the better view, so no tool bar
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                          • locoeng
                            Who Farted?
                            • Dec 2005
                            • 2509

                            #14
                            If'n I want to search for something, I just open another tab, go to google and search there...I don't really want a tool bar.


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                            • LT. Columbo
                              Demigod of Digital Video
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 10671

                              #15
                              i just keep google in my favorites folder.
                              "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                              Columbo moments...
                              "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                              "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                              (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)


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