Google Updates Toolbar to version 4.0
Published January 30th, 2006
Google is releasing the Google Toolbar 4.0 beta for consumers and corporations. The latest update to Google’s toolbar promises to facilitate search queries directly on websites.
Sundar Pichai, project manager - client software, Google, says that Google Toolbar 4.0 will empower users to personalize, configure, and customize their toolbar the way they want it to be.
Google Toolbar 4.0 incorporates new features such as custom buttons, centralized bookmarks, enhanced search, and a sharing capability called ‘Send To’.
While custom buttons can be created to access pre-defined searches or pre-set data sources viz RSS feeds; centralized bookmarks allow users to access bookmarks via their Google accounts from any PC.
The enhanced search feature suggests terms from popular searches and the user’s search history, plus suggests corrected spellings for searches. With Send to, sending Web pages to others via e-mail or text messaging becomes simpler. This feature can also be used to send Web pages to Google-hosted blogs.
Google Toolbar 4.0’s enterprise version adds a group policy feature, so that IT administrators can turn features on or off centrally, through a Windows installer framework.
The Google Toolbar 4 beta currently supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and Windows 2000/XP, with a Firefox-compatible version to be released at a later date.
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