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You've got an exceptionally large ego if you think they're looking at /your/
searches over the other millions of others. At most you are just a
statistic, sorry to disappoint you.

 

No, but I'm wondering *why* you're recommending that people don't use
the google toolbar

Yes, it's factual stuff knitted together for the gullible to leap to
conclusions e.g.

"Matt Cutts, a software engineer at Google since January 2000, used to
work for the National Security Agency and has a top-secret clearance.
Google would like to hire more like him. Can you trust Google with a
database of all the search terms you've ever used?"

The inference is that because an employee used to work for the spooks,
his new employers can't be trusted - it's just kids stuff.

 

Downloaded this morning and it seems effective - lots of nice features
(vile colour scheme though )

It seems to inhibit the displaying of all gif images on a web page - is
this normal - couldn't find a setting to alter this behaviour. There is
an option to bar animated gifs but unchecking this didn't make any
difference to static ones. Is this normal?

 

Well, you get a permanent little search term window, so you never have
to go to google.com itself - that's a least one keyclick saved. Then
it provides a little drop down of the words in your search, and when
you click on one of them, it takes you to the occurence of the word in
the target document. My other favourite feature is the 'up' button,
that takes you up thru the URL (this needs an eg)....

Say a google search has taken you to www.a.com/foo/bar/whatever.htm.
Hit the 'up' button, and it takes you to www.a.com/foo/bar/. Hit it
again and it takes you to www.a.com/foo/. One last time takes you to
www.a.com. If find this very useful.

hth

 

Only way I can listen to radio 4 during the day is via my computer.
Which kind of relies on the computer being on.

 

even so, you have to click the button and wait for your browser to go
there, before you can type in your search. With the toolbar, you type
the search into the little search pane, and click go.

I find using a browser without it very odd, I'm so used to it

 

Probably depends on the values of "slightly". e.g. MILF will be rated
"systems normal" but "distillery webcam" will get the big red flashy
lights.

 

And "kiddy porn" will result in "what, another one?"

 

Yup. *And* has a handy google-search field where you just type in
your search and hit enter...

Phil

--
Phil Launchbury, Network & Infrastructure PHB
Triumph Tiger 955i
'Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they
are quick to anger and have no need of subtlety'
Remove sick person to email me

 

Mozilla has this by default - type stuff into the address bar, and as well
as matching previous URLs it offers the option to web search.

Also, highlight some text in a document with the mouse, right click and
select web search - brilliant.

- Dave.

 

I thought Champers was talking about IE. Oh well.

 

Yebbut, it's not so much that I have the conceit to think they are
anxious to know what I'm up to at any given moment. It's more that
because google archives this stuff (The cookie expires in 2038) they can
pull out a search history and use it for profiling at any point in the
future.

Given the increasingley paranoid nature of The US administration and
it's poodle Mr Tory Bliar, who knows what sort of witch huntery they may
dream up after the id cards are issued.

I just don't like being profiled by a commercial company which has you
agree to them doing more or less what they like with the data they
gather on you when you click 'yes' in their license agreement, or even
just use their search engine.

Targeted advertising annoys me as much as political repression...
nearly.

 

I was.

 

Why? Proxomitron kills popup windows, and if you don't want to kill
them you just hit "bypass", do whatever needed popups and then return to
normal.