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 Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: Google Browses By Name, Not URL |
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| Quote: | Continuing its efforts to keep surfers from using rival search sites, Google this week added a feature to its toolbar that lets users traverse the Web by typing in words, not URLs.
Using Browse by Name, users can type "adobe reader" into Internet Explorer's address bar and end up at the harder-to-remember "http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html" URL to start the process of downloading the free PDF utility.
If the toolbar doesn't recognize the word(s), it does a standard Google search and displays the results. Typing "toyota pickups," for instance, brings up a typical hit list of sites.
Although Google's toolbar has an auto-update option that grabs newer versions without user intervention, the pace is methodical; not all users had been upgraded to the newest version by Thursday. |
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tntcheats
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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So it's basically just making IE more like Firefox... yay... it's still a useless program.
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cvrk3
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| Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| it is bascially search with added commercial sense. Probably this will make the surfer to go the sponsored sites first. |
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flerping
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| Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject: |
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Huh. This is strange.
I have a brand new google toolbar (three weeks old at its oldest), so I decided to try it with "disney." I ended up with a standard IE response -- an MSN search page.
Wonder if it's blocked out?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:57 am Post subject: |
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that could come very handy
is is spyware free ? |
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tntcheats
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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It's Google. It'll only record URLs (not personally identifiable but will be seen in general population usage statistics as seen in the Google Zeitgeist I believe) if you have the advanced features on.
And crvk3, it is GOOGLE; they'll bring you to the proper site--not a commercial one.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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hey tntcheats, wht happened to you, unlike your earlier post, i find lot of miscues, have you appointed a ghostwriter?  |
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