bruce k on All About Dichroic Optical Filters.Bill on Homemade Panadapter Brings Waterfall To Old Radio.Phillip on Winamp Reborn With The Adafruit PyPortal.Posted in internet hacks Tagged google, Google Chrome, internet explorer, time capsule, toolbar Post navigation Farewell Google Toolbar, we’ll remember you for… five minutes, tops. So, Google pulled the plug just before it turned 21 years old. With Microsoft itself leaving IE behind, there’s no longer any reason for Google Toolbar to exist. Google now has its own Chrome browser, enjoying the kind of dominance Internet Explorer once had. On the flip side there were some features that were nice while it lasted, like a single toggle to turn off all telemetry sent back to Google. In their efforts to entice users to install, Google promised capabilities that are now hilariously out of date, like integration with a wide swath of also-dead Google products. Google was just one company among many fighting for finite real estate, using Toolbar to circumvent Microsoft and redirect people to Google properties. Take the best of Google everywhere on the web! (The comments thread on that Ars Technica article includes some horrific screenshots of mass toolbar infestation.) Trying to get out from under IE’s shadow, many internet companies grabbed a toehold on users’ computers by installing a toolbar.
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But back then, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was so dominant, the browser’s inclusion in Windows led to an antitrust lawsuit. Today it’s hard to find an operating system that does not bundle a web browser. of Ars Technica fired up a Google product of year 2000 in Take one last look at Google Toolbar, which is now dead. But every once in a while, we get a reminder of what once was. Shortening attention spans and memories all over the world. For both better and worse, the internet landscape moves fast.
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