[extropy-chat] Yeah! Where the hell is Within-Text Highlighting?

[BillK]

On 5/18/06, Brian Atkins wrote:
> The google toolbar already has a feature to highlight search terms:
>
> http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/index.html
>


I refuse to install the Google Toolbar on my pcs, but others may value
the features provided enough to do so.

Google will do autoupdates to the toolbar software without your
knowledge or permission. For me this is unacceptable behaviour.

Google has promised to do no evil, but in my opinion, the default
installation falls under the heading of spyware.

Using the default installation, Google will collect information about
the URLs you visit and the text on these pages.  Google says that if
you switch off the 'Advanced' features this will reduce the amount of
data they store about you.
So you could call it 'optional spyware' if you like.


BillK