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Google Browses By Name, Not URL
Friday, July 16, 2004
Continuing its efforts to keep surfers from using rival search
sites, Google this week added a feature to its toolbar that lets
users traverse the Web by typing in words, not URLs.
Using Browse by Name, users can type “adobe reader” into
Internet Explorer's address bar and end up at the harder-to-remember
“http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html”
URL to start the process of downloading the free PDF utility.
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.
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