New Article - Google Introduces New Toolbar Features

[thejenn]

Full Text: http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/003423.html

Some Snippets:

"Google released a new beta version of its popular toolbar software this morning that adds some handy new features including a translation tool, an autolink feature and an integrated spell checker."

"Perhaps the handiest new feature on the toolbar is the Spell Checker. Anyone that spells as poorly as I do and posts online as much as I do will find this integrated little tool to be indispensable."

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In all honesty, despite the "cool" factor of the translation and autolink tool, I doubt I'll use them much, but the new spell check feature is a whole other story. I love it! Seriously...I spend a great deal of my day in discussion forums, or working on Movable Type. I've always had to cut and paste everything into a program that had a spell checker and then cut and paste it back, but Google's solved that problem for me. Yay Google!

[bragadocchio]

I'm not sure that I'm that excited over the new features.

But, my favorite toolbar is this one:

http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resou...tion_v2en.html

It's really not a toolbar for the average person, searching the web, but it has so many neat features that I actually use, that the Google toolbar sort of pales in comparison.

(My favorites are the ability to toggle on and off javascript and CSS, and the link checker and the readability test.)