Toolbar

From The Unofficial Google Wiki

Google Toolbar is a toolbar featuring a Google search bar, as well as other Google tools. As of July 2005, Google Toolbar is available for two browsers, four operating systems and in ten languages.

This addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later adds Google's searching capabilities in a toolbar in the web browser. The latest version includes pop-up ads blocking, automatic filling of forms, the ability to show the Google PageRank value for the current page being viewed, and spell checker, AutoLink and the Word Translator. It has been criticized for being a security risk because it updates itself without user intervention.

A separately downloadable add-on for the toolbar allows participation in Google Compute, a distributed computing project to help scientific research.

Other browsers, such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari, have built-in search tools that offer the same functionality. Recently, Google also launched a new version of the toolbar, "Google Toolbar for Firefox", which functions similarly to its Internet Explorer counterpart, except it has exclusive Firefox-only features. There is also the well established Googlebar project, which although unofficial and not developed by Google directly offers very similar functionality to the official Google Toolbar.

From November 2005, Wikia is promoting Firefox with Google Toolbar by placing a button in the footer of every wiki. As well as increasing awareness of useful products and services, every installation of the browser with the Google Toolbar raises $1 for Wikia, which supplements the revenue from advertising and helps to support the site, allowing us to continue to offer free wiki hosting to hundreds of wikis. See Wikia:Firefox or click the Firefox icon in the bottom right corner of this page.

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