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Google Toolbar 4 has useful and elegant new features.
Lately it seems as if everybody and their second cousin has attempted to follow Google's example by cobbling together a browser toolbar. Most of these shortcut collections do little more than push the page content farther below the virtual fold and replace it with a string of ads to the company's sites and services (the Yahoo Toolbar is a prime example of this approach). But it's clear to me, based on a few days of using the beta of Google Toolbar 4, that the first is still the best.
Topping the list of version 4's new features is type-ahead help in the search text box. In typical Google fashion, the search-term helper is simple, elegant, and useful: As you enter text, a small window pops open below the box, listing popular search terms beginning with those letters. The toolbar remembers past searches, too, and lists them here when appropriate. Credit & More Info: PC World
Lately it seems as if everybody and their second cousin has attempted to follow Google's example by cobbling together a browser toolbar. Most of these shortcut collections do little more than push the page content farther below the virtual fold and replace it with a string of ads to the company's sites and services (the Yahoo Toolbar is a prime example of this approach). But it's clear to me, based on a few days of using the beta of Google Toolbar 4, that the first is still the best.
Topping the list of version 4's new features is type-ahead help in the search text box. In typical Google fashion, the search-term helper is simple, elegant, and useful: As you enter text, a small window pops open below the box, listing popular search terms beginning with those letters. The toolbar remembers past searches, too, and lists them here when appropriate. Credit & More Info: PC World
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