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Google Toolbar officially taken out of beta, custom button feature added
by David Chartier Jul 30th 2006 at 12:00PM
Google's been busy lately. First they give gTalk a much-needed update, and then they quietly announced that the Google Toolbar has been taken out of beta by introducing a new 'roll your own buttons' feature. Users can now right-click in the search field of any site and chose 'Generate Custom Search' to add it to their Toolbar. Even more advanced features can be had by checking out Google's guide here, while a 600+ button gallery is here.
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Justin Kates said 1:54PM on 7-30-2006
You are showing a picture of the Firefox version which doesn't have the Custom Buttons feature. I'm not sure if it is out of beta or not either...
Justin
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burnblue said 7:51PM on 7-30-2006
Didn't we already have the ability to add our own Custom Search buttons? I used to do it all the time.
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Shannon said 10:21PM on 7-30-2006
I've had the custom button search for about 1 month now.
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fabien said 7:45PM on 8-02-2006
nice feature . google is the best internet company ever !
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