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New Google Toolbar Brings Browse By Name

Philipp Lenssen writes "The newest release of the Google Toolbar (Internet Explorer only) comes with a Browse by Name feature. It lets you enter keywords in the browser address bar, and when Google decides this is a sure bet you will be directly forwarded to the right page. Is this the return of Internet Keywords?"

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  1. Appears to work well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I typed in "buggy insecure browser" and it took me here.

    1. Re:Appears to work well by Senjutsu · · Score: 2, Funny

      No joke, I just tried that with firefox, and it took me to a download page for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1.

    2. Re:Appears to work well by Frankie70 · · Score: 3, Funny


      No joke, I just tried that with firefox, and it took me to a download page for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1.


      Yes - at download.com

      Typing "Miserable failure" in firefox also takes you to the Whitehouse website.

    3. Re:Appears to work well by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Funny

      Type what? Is there an icon for it? Is it the one with the guy who's head is stuck up his ass? Wait, I think i see it... nope that's for the dancing paperclip... this is too hard.. the fucker's going beep-beep-beep... I'm buying a mac.

    4. Re:Appears to work well by balster+neb · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hah, that's nothing. Typing "shit", "cat vomit" or "brain damaging color scheme" always brings me here. :)

  2. address bar by penguinoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks, but I much prefer to use my address bar for my google searches.

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  3. Re:You mean... by jdkane · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it's nice to see IE is finally catching up ... the slow but happy kid of the bunch.

  4. Re:You mean... by Atrax · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Well, it's nice to see IE is finally catching up

    yeah, but it's not IE catching up. it's a third-party addon, not the IE team suddenly adding a (very useful hassle saving) feature.

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  5. Try... by soyuz_2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try "miserable failure"

    (yes, it's old... still funny though.. :)

  6. What do I win... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For being the first person to see where the keyword "sex" takes me.

    http://www.sxetc.org/

    (back to Firefox now)

  7. Re:Using correct search terms... by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Funny

    feeling lucky never works for me.

    its usually the third link or so that has what i want.

    in fact, if one could reroute -im feeling lucky- to the third link, i'd probably be better off.

    i would capitalize properly, but my left shift key is broken, and im too lazy to use the right shift.

  8. No, I'm New Here by New+Here · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, I'm New Here

    1. Re:No, I'm New Here by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 0, Funny

      Shut the fuck up!

  9. Re:Return of Internet Keywords? by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the fact that if u take AOL broad band (even cable) you have to run a bloated software which doesnt run on Linux just to connect. (I tried it bcos they had a 45 days free trial and I was short of money ... but it was useless becos I couldnt use it on my linux machine)

    So the grammer/spelling/general annoyingness problem doesn't go away even after you stop using AOL?

  10. Re:um, no by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

    4) IE is the best-known buggy and insecure browser.

    If you're gonna defend M$ on /., you should learn to pick your battles more wisely.

  11. Re:IE only? by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just f**king download firefox and enjoy the f**cking google bar already build the f**k in. It's f**king great and I use it all the f**cking time.

    Haha, alright man, I'm just f**cking with you. I still like to go to google.com. This article made me realize I should get rid that that f**king google bar. It's just wasting space and that pissed me the f**k off.

    Fuck!

  12. Re:In which case by qopax · · Score: 2, Funny

    copyright violation. click here for sueage.

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  13. Re:or by soyuz_2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try "waffles." I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

    What, republicans know how to use computers too? And googlebomb? This must be the new shock & awe strategy I've been hearing so much about...

  14. Re:Funny... by EvanED · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heathan! Google doesn't go down!

    (And yes, I know Google has gone down, but let's not let reality interefere with a good joke, shall we?)

  15. failure... by unknown_host · · Score: 2, Funny

    Try searching for failure on google.

  16. Re:or by soyuz_2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeh d00d, republiKKKans are dummies LOL!!!

    Yes, it was wrong of me to perpetuate these untrue stereotypes of republicans. Do accept my heartfelt apologies. And say hi to your mom for me, it's been a while.

  17. Re:Firefox does it already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its not that handy when you develop against a web server on you local machine. I really did not want to visit localhost.au every time I forgot to start Tomcat.