Check out the email I got from the Google team!

Hi Max,

Thanks for your note. We decided to release the Toolbar in Microsoft IE
for the Beta version. We are currently examining the feasibility of
implementing the Toolbar in Linux. Stay tuned by subscribing to our Google
Friends Newsletter at http://www.google.com/contact/newsletter.html .

Regards,
The Google Team


Original Message Follows:
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From: Max Pray <keubstudios@attbi.com>
Subject: Linux toolbar?
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:03:53 -0700

Google Staff,

Is there any chance of releasing a google toolbar for Linux? I
dual-boot between Linux and Windows XP, and I have learned to perfer
Linux over Windows by a great degree, and the Linux population is
steadily increasing from people like me who have been exposed to the OS.
I go to a Linux forum at www.linuxquestions.org, and have heard so
many people saying that it licks balls that there's no Google toolbar
for Linux. Do you think there will ever be a Linux release? Thanks!!

Max

great!!

Er, if you are using Mozilla you already have this built in. Type in your search word in the location box and hit the 'search' button next to it -- it searches via the Netscape search engine at http://search.netscape.com .. which is actually powered by Google.

And if you use konqueror you can already search google with the gg: web shortcut.

I use Netscape 7.02 and it lets me change the engine under the 'Search' button on the right hand side of the location bar under preferences -> Navigator -> Internet Search
I'm not sure, but optimistic that Mozilla will have some similar feature. Most possibly, identical.


If it doesnt work, you can always create a new bookmark in your 'Personal Toolbar folder', and edit its properties to point to this link.

javascript:q=document.getSelection();if(!q.length) for(i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) { q = frames[i].document.getSelection(); if(q) break; } if(!q) void(q = prompt('Google Search..', ''));if(q) top.location.href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=" + escape(q) + "&btnG=Google+Search";

javascript is one word. Somehow, I cant get it displayed right in the post.

From now on, you can higlight a word or a phrase and click on this new bookmark hotbutton and Mozilla will run it agains google. If you dont have anything selected, you will be prompted. I have similar a similar bookmark for www.m-w.com ( Merriam Webster Dictionary Lookup)

In Mandrake 9.0 Galeon there IS a google toolbar ! ( web - images - groups, etc. )

Or you can use Phoenix.... It searches google directly.

Try using the [code] tags nxny.

Yeah, I know, I set it up to do that weeks ago, but I still like the toolbar

I tried those. didn't help!! They make the entire line of text display in one line ( lots of horizontal scrolling ) but still put a space between 'java' and 'script'.

you can change mozilla options from netcape to google while you are searching

There is an actual 'Google Bar' for mozilla .

check out

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

Its pretty kewl - just like the IE google bar ..

there is no need to build a google bar for linux browsers.

Depends what functionality you are after ..

Personally I really like the googlebar.
Especially for hi-lighting search words , and quick jump to search words in the page.

in Opera 7.11 (which rocks, yup i know it is not an open source though)
there is a lot of searching facilities.

g word = search the word via google
x word = search the word via google/linux
a word = via alltheweb
and so on..

Opera rocks! (with mouse gestures, with keyboards shortcuts, with better tabbed browsing..) with all that, i never use GoogleBar neither in Windows nor in Linux.. try it (if you are not a pure RMS fan) LOL