Google 2.0

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 25, 2003 10:12 PM

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Clicked the smiley icon for www.webword.com! Interesting how they have added the Blogger icon to the toolbar. Wonder how many people have the google toolbar installed?

Posted by: daniel szuc on June 26, 2003 08:01 AM

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Now heres an idea ... what if Google released a toolbar for Outlook that allowed you to search via the Outlook without having to ALT TAB to IE. But further to that, included a SPAM blocker. Yipee!

Posted by: daniel szuc on June 26, 2003 08:09 AM

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Firebird already does popup blocking, Firebird already does autofill, I already have a bookmarklet for MT. Oh, and Firebird has Google search built in. Besides, who would want Google spying on them all the time?

Posted by: Joshua Kaufman on June 26, 2003 09:10 AM

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http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html

Posted by: daniel szuc on June 26, 2003 11:41 AM

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I wish they had that Blogger bookmarklet for other blogging software!... as if that's gonna happen :(.

Posted by: Francis Wu on June 26, 2003 03:34 PM

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Again, it doesn't work on Mac :-(

Posted by: Martina on June 28, 2003 04:34 AM

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I don't know, why you think such a toolbar is so useful.
Some sites claim, that it's spyware and logging to which sites you are surfing.

Posted by: chris on June 28, 2003 06:59 PM

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Don't worry. They have a sentence on one of their pages that says they aren't evil. We're so happy with the service, we don't care if we're being screwed.

All corporations should use kiddy clown colors in their logos.

Posted by: on June 28, 2003 11:32 PM

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On a slightly different topic... Google News sucks ass. I'm tired of finding myself reading an article Google highlighted for me, and I start thinking, "hey, this story seems very one-sided." Then I hack the URL to realize I'm not at a traditional news organization. Then I go back to Google and filter through the "related" news links to see how many are only passingly related, and I wonder how many people Google is directing to biased news articles - people who won't do the research to realize the background of the organization speaking the "news." At least before Google people knew up front where their information was coming from because they made an overt conscious decision to visit a particular news site. If you read CNN or MSNBC or BBC you knew the background of the news source and their history of bias. These days the casual news browser is a helpless dupe thanks to services like Google News.

Posted by: on June 29, 2003 10:25 PM

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