Google Toolbar

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Google Toolbar
Image:Toolbar sm.gif <tr><th>Developer:</th><td>Google</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>4.0 (IE) 2.1 (Firefox) / 2006</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux</td></tr>
Use:	Toolbar <tr><th>License:</th><td>Proprietary freeware</td></tr>
Website:	Official hompage

Google Toolbar is an Internet browser toolbar available for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (with slightly different features).

1 Features
2 Google Compute
- 2.1 See also
- 2.2 References
3 External links

[edit] Features

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[edit] Standard

Google search box using Google Suggest
SpellCheck
AutoLink
AutoFill
Translator
PageRank display
Address bar browse by name

[edit] Internet Explorer

Send to: send webpage via SMS or email
Google Account sign-in
Search Settings Notifier
Google Bookmarks
Pop-up blocker
Google Toolbar Buttons

[edit] Firefox only

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Community and Customization
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Custom Distributions and Forks
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[edit] Google Compute

Google Compute was a separately downloadable add-on for the Google Toolbar which allowed participation in a distributed computing project to help scientific research. It started on a limited basis in March 2002<ref>Olsen, Stefanie. "Google tests distributed computing", CNet News, March 27, 2003.</ref> and ended in October 2005.<ref>Support center. Folding@Home. "The Google compute program has ended."</ref> <ref>Is Google quitting the project?. Folding Community (October 22, 2005).</ref>

Google Compute enabled a user's computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when the computer would otherwise be idle. When one enabled Google Compute, the computer downloaded a small piece of a large research problem and performed calculations on it that were then included with results from thousands of other computers. Google Compute was only available for the English language version of the Google Toolbar.<ref>Shankland, Stephen. "Google takes on supercomputing", CNet News, March 22, 2002.</ref>

The effort's first, and so far only, contribution was to Folding@home, a non-profit endeavor to model the process of protein folding in order to better understand and cure many different diseases. The Google Compute homepage recommends that users wishing to continue contributions to the project download the official Folding@home client.

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