Entered CNET Catalog: 11/09/2004
SKU: SERVGOOGLE
Manufacturer: Google
Product summary
The good: Easy installation; good customization options; offers many specific types of searches; auto form filler with password protection; posts entries on your blog; translates Web pages into English; gets info on the Web page you're visiting; best overall search results.
The bad: No specific weather search; voting buttons don't serve any apparent function; spotty up-one-level feature.
The bottom line: Google's toolbar goes above and beyond its competitors, offering a wide range of specific searches, stellar search results, and a slew of extras, including an automatic form filler.
User opinions
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Expedient access to everything needed.
Pros: Quick and adds greatly to productivity on the web.
Cons: The only downside is that it adds another bar to the top of the browser, but even this can be eliminated with replacement of search boxes and rearrangement of icons.
out of 9 user reviews
A useful edition to any browser
Pros: convenient and adds a lot of subtle features to your surfing experience
Cons: inconsistent across browers, certain features need work
The Firefox version works great considering you can customize your layout so you don't end up with two search windows plus the integration of independent extensions like Google Safe Browsing are welcome additions.
The IE edition boasts a lot of promising features like the Bookmarks tool and the ability to customize the toolbar buttons.
Both browsers a weakened by the fact that one has features the other doesn't. Plus for the IE version, one cannot remain logged in for long periods of time since it constantly times out, thus requiring you to log in to each Google service manually.
Overall, they're very useful additions to any computer. Let's just hope Google works out the kinks in the coming months.
out of 9 user reviews
Does not compare to Yahoo Toolbar
Pros: well... google search is the best search
Cons: so-so popup blocking, no other real functionality
out of 9 user reviews
Great in some ways
Pros: Searching capabilities, and other features
Cons: Popup blocking
out of 9 user reviews
The review is wrong
Pros: Weather search is there
Cons: nothing wrong with it
out of 9 user reviews
Perfect........When I use Internet Explorer
Pros: Ease of use. Search results.
Cons: none that i can think of.
out of 9 user reviews
Never lets me down
Pros: Fast and Easy
Cons: None really
out of 9 user reviews
nothing better
Pros: fast, accurate, highlighting, keyword search, pop-up blocking, autofill forms
Cons: takes up 1cm off your browser window...
out of 9 user reviews
Excellent product
Pros: Works well. Many, many hits.
Cons: Sometimes goes far astray.
