Last week Google has launched Google Toolbar 2.0. It presents some new features like a pop-up blocker, and a Blog-this button that will work for Blogger users.
The announced problem with the pop-up blocker is that it blocks every kind of pop-ups, not just the advertising ones. Furthermore it will not be able to stop Gator advertising.
The polemics on the new Toolbar go further if we look at the blog-this feature that has raised a lot of concern between blogging services and technology providers in competition with Blogger.
I really look forward to test it, however I will have to wait until Monday, when I get back to work. The new toolbar in fact doesn't work on Mac. Like many other people, I'm a big Google fan, however I have been really disappointed by the lack of consideration for Mac users�

>The new toolbar in fact doesn't work on Mac.
>Like many other people, I'm a big Google fan,
>however I have been really disappointed by
>the lack of consideration for Mac users…

That's exactly the reason why we started the Google Toolbar For Mac Petition at gopple.org.
Hopefully this puts some pressure on Google and Apple to build a mac friendly toolbar!

Cheers!

Posted by: Gopple at July 4, 2003 01:11 PM

May be a good reason to stop using Macs. I have to use Macs in school because the sick things are discounted and the school gets silly software for this duck OS only and have to use it. Ugh!

Posted by: S at October 9, 2003 01:22 AM

Stop using a Mac for a Google Toolbar? What are you? On CRACK?

Crazy fool.

Posted by: PCs Are Waste at October 11, 2003 01:19 PM

I use google for ad words and am thinking of putting in a google search box on my site. I need to check my page ranking on google but cannot unless I change to a pc, and why would I want to do a stupid thing like that?

Posted by: Andrew Hamilton at July 14, 2004 04:03 PM

I'd rather forget google than for-go my MAC but why should I have to?
doesn't google have the techno-sence to be compatable with the best
computer on the planet?

Posted by: Richard T. Simpson at August 8, 2004 08:46 AM