Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There was no ceremony, no announcement, no moment of silence, nor any closure — just a “no longer available.” ...

December 11 marked the birthday of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, which Google inexplicably left running nearly 21 years. We say “nearly” because we had this hands-on birthday post written ...

If Google is the Borg, Google Toolbar is the Terminator: just when you think you’ve killed it, it comes right back to murderize the Sarah Connor that is your privacy. What a creepy move. UPDATED, with ...

Helloooooo there. Today’s Friday, it’s almost the weekend, I’ve just eaten some delicious home-cooked chicken (which of course I did not cook myself; it was actually cooked at someone else’s home) … ...

Ever since all browsers started featuring built-in tabs, search bars, and pop-up blockers, I've questioned the need for any of the toolbars that piggyback onto so many software downloads (Adobe Reader ...

In a report published on Tuesday, Harvard assistant professor and security researcher Benjamin Edelman presented findings about a privacy flaw in the Google Toolbar, Web browser add-on software that ...

Google announced today the release of Google Toolbar 7, which brings Google Instant and other features to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Mimicking the functionality found in the Google’s Chrome ...

Yes, Google uses data from its Google Toolbar to improve its search results. But no, Google reasserts, it doesn’t use its toolbar to mine search behavior on other search engines in the way that Bing ...