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Google Toolbar Privacy Concerns

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Graywolf points out in his recent entry, that Google documented in their 2005 Patent filing a mechanism to use bookmark information to determine page relevancy.
This, in conjuction with the recent news about the government subpeona against Google to provide them information, demonstrates the sort of privacy concerns that exist in using browser toolbars that save […]

Google Toolbar Version 4 Beta

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

Google has recently released version 4 of their toolbar.

There are a number of new features in this version (and thus the Beta designation):
Enhanced Search Box
As you type into the browser’s search box, matches to what you’ve typed in so far will appear in a drop-menu below the search box along with the number […]