Toolbar Update

[Brett_Tabke]

Updated itself to 1.63...(not sure when [toolbar.google.com...] )

You can find a couple somewhat new features under toolbar options and then clicking on experimental features. Most of these have been seen before:

• A combined "search button" (not sure what that does - looks the same to me).
  
• An ONunLOAD js killer. Usually stops popups or popunders.
  
• Next Previous buttons to step through search results. (most of us have had that one for awhile though)
  
• After installing, you are presented with a link to this page:
  [toolbar.google.com...]
  

Selected Toolbar Threads:
Toolbar UnLoad Option [webmasterworld.com]
New Toolbar: Experimental features [webmasterworld.com]
Hidden Distributed Search Function in Google Toolbar [webmasterworld.com]
Distributed Search Function in new Google Toolbar [webmasterworld.com]
Funny thing about Google toolbar voting feature [webmasterworld.com]
Google toolbar Hidden features [webmasterworld.com]
Google Toolbar Checksum url algo [webmasterworld.com]
Google Toolbar Beta Vote function [webmasterworld.com]
Hidden Feature in Toolbar [webmasterworld.com]
Has The Toolbar Gone Mainstream? [webmasterworld.com]
Toolbar Causes Indexing? [webmasterworld.com]
Google Visits What you Visit if you have the Toolbar [webmasterworld.com]
Pointing toolbar at www2 - www3 [webmasterworld.com]
What effect do the toolbar smilie faces have? [webmasterworld.com]
DC Toolbar Functions Turned on [webmasterworld.com]
Toolbar Policy - What happens to the data? [webmasterworld.com]
Google toolbar self updated to 1.1.57-deleon [webmasterworld.com]
Toolbar Update - 1.1.58 [webmasterworld.com]
Toolbar Update - 1.1.61 [webmasterworld.com]

just for fun:
[www-cs-students.stanford.edu...]

[Fiver]

still no news search button? :(

betashmeta it's already our homepage.

[biggles]

Like Powdork my Google toolbar is showing it's the latest version but I can't see any references to Google Compute or a DNA style icon.

Must be some time delay in the Google Toolbar displaying the New! icon following it updating itself to 1.63. Last night 1.63 was on my PC, but no button. Then this morning the New button appeared.

[Visit Thailand]

deltakits - who are you referring to? I did not elect for Google to select a charity/research utility that will use my pc for anything.

I have thought more about this and have come to a decision that it relies on peoples ignorance of computers most people probably just get on with it.

But it also perhaps points out Googles ignorance of the world. Why does Google feel the research utility will be globally acceptable? After all it is not an American search engine but a global one.

With upadates like this Googleshould first ask and say hey do you want to support this charity by doing X and then let us decide.

Could money be involved? Why did google choose this, and not another research facility.

I love Google but this has really put me off using them.

[deltakits]

deltakits - who are you referring to? I did not elect for Google to select a charity/research utility that will use my pc for anything

Then it is not using your pc for anything. That is the point, it is off BY DEFAULT!

[Visit Thailand]

Not entirely as I had this new icon on the toolbar that I had to click and then go to a webapge at google read it and then select that I wanted nothing to do with it. Wastes my time.

[GoogleGuy]

Fiver, I'll ask about adding a news search to the toolbar. The fact that the toolbar updates is in our FAQ:
[toolbar.google.com...]

The distributed computing option is off by default, so you have to opt-in to activate it. We did want to offer an easy way for people to help with this scientific problem though. If anyone is interested in the worthy cause of Folding@Home (protein folding helps people understand how to tackle diseases), they just had a few articles appear:
[news.bbc.co.uk...]
or
[folding.stanford.edu...]
Part of that computation was volunteered by people who activated it on their toolbar. Again, this option is off by default, but it's a great/easy way for people to help out with a good scientific cause. :)