July 16, 2004

Wishing to keep surfers from using rival search engines, Google this week added a new feature to its regular toolbar that lets users search the Internet by typing in simple words, not Web addresses.

Using Browse by Name, users can type "adobe reader" into Internet Explorer's address bar.

They would then end up at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html, a much harder address to remember for most people.

If the toolbar doesn't recognize the word(s), it does a standard Google search and displays the results. Typing “toyota pickups,” for instance, brings up a typical hit list of sites.

Although Google's toolbar has an auto-update option that grabs newer versions without user intervention, the pace is methodical; not all users had been upgraded to the newest version by Thursday.

The new toolbar, which is available in English and more than 30 other languages, requires Windows 98 or later and IE 5.0 or later. It can be downloaded free of charge from Google's Web site.

Source: Tech Web.com

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