How to know if a toolbar (like Google's) is tracking you when it's disabled
A recent tip suggested that even when disabled the Google Toolbar sends data to Google without the user knowing. After doing some digging I've found this is only the case if, while using IE8 the user fails to restart the browser after disabling the toolbar from the "Manage Add-ons" window.
This is certainly possible, but the browser does warn the user to restart immediately after saving the ...
Welcome to Googleholic, your weekly fix of everything Google!
In this Ghoulishly-Google edition:
Gmail supports gadgets
Link to specific parts of a YouTube video
Search Google profiles
Google Toolbar turns 8
Google promotes 'Take a Vote Hour'
Ghoulishly Google Trick-or-Treats
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Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! This edition covers:
Google "hijacking" 404 pages
Gmail surveys the connection between love and e-mail
T-Mobile: Goodbye Google, Hello Yahoo
Why the Google Logo looks how it does
Google Ad share drops
Google "hijacking" 404 pages It looks like Google Toolbar beta 5 carries a little surprise for 404 pages - a new ...
Google is sometimes a little slow at releasing Mac compatible applications. They are getting better, and have hired on some additional Mac guys and girls to do the development work. So, now its time to show off the fact that they really do support Mac's. Google has put together a nice little page for Mac users, which shows their collection of software downloads specifically for Mac users. This ...
Google and Mozilla know how to push their software out to the masses. People love their software, and do pretty much anything to get it out there, either through word of mouth, or through distribution deals with the likes of Dell and other major players in the technology industry. Google and Mozilla have teamed with RealNetworks to distribute their popular software even further. For the past few ...
SearchEngineJournal is reporting that Google has stuck a deal with Adobe to have Google Toolbar bundled with every install of Shockwave Player for Windows, and bundling with other Adobe products will begin in the near future. Adobe says that this won't affect the bundling that it's already doing with Yahoo! Toolbar, which presumably means when you install Shockwave Player you'll be given the ...
Google has finally released version two of their browser toolbar for
Firefox. The new version picks up on some of the features that have been in the latest version for IE for some time,
but as they state on the Official Google Blog, Firefox and IE users have different needs, so there are some differences
between the two toolbars. Luckily, it appears that everything I was hoping for is there, ...





