What
is The Google Toolbar? Author Of Article:
Jakob Jelling
No matter what browser you may want to use, you
should consider using Google’s toolbar. Google.com,
the innovative, stripped-down, add-free search
engine that has taken the web by storm has provided
an innovative interface through most web browsers;
mainly Internet Explorer. This toolbar has many
great features for searching around the Internet
as well as blocking those annoying Pop-up ads
that scream “BUY ME!” every twenty seconds.
Anyone can go to toolbar.google.com and download
this great plug-in for your browser. There are
various features that come with using it that
you may or may not wish to employ. Taking a few
minutes before you install it will definitely
save you time later on.
Google Search Web
In this interface you can type in keywords, terms,
phrases as well as URL’s (Universal Resource Locators)
and away you go. By harnessing the Google engine
you magically fly through their portal to your
destination. You will render a Google search or
a direct shot to your URL.
PageRank
With any good toolbar, Google let’s you know how
important it thinks the site you are looking is.
This rank is rated from 1 – 10, 1 being a very
light, low-traveled website and ten which is a
site like Google where millions of people visit
each day. Your page rank is determined by several
factors, keywords, keyword in URL, and reciprocal
linking. Reciprocal linking alone buys the user
a popular rank as Google looks favorably at websites
that share good karma. The larger the number of
websites pointing to your site will ultimately
help you rise up through the ranking status.
Pop-Up Blocker
You get them, we all get them, those nasty pop-up
ads that ask you to lose weight or tell you how
to increase your libido. These advertising snippets
have become annoying to the point that some websites
you cannot even get on because you can be barraged
by a plethora of pop-up ads. The Pop-Up Blocker
plug-in allows you to receive little if no pop-ups.
Google designed this plug-in as an approach to
invasion free web surfing. Every time a pop-up
rears its ugly head, POW! Add another pop-up to
the counter. It actually tells you how many pop-ups
the toolbar has thwarted.
BlogThis!
An interesting technology that was designed in
the late 1990’s and recently purchased by Google.
Blog This! Allows the user to create a private
or public diary or workspace to share ideas, search
for people, create discussions and just jot down
information. These blog’s have become infamous
over the past few years and Google has purchased
the leading company in the boom.
Autofill capabilities
You may have been looking up a specific keyword
or term and found a result that you liked. The
Autofill capabilities cache your searching information
for present as well as future use should you need
to call up previous search requests.
As you can the Google toolbar displays many great
features and technologies that you can harness
in a few short clicks. The technology involved
has far surpassed any other search engine on the
planet.
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