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...allows you to create your own personal web archive that you can search from your desktop and share with others. While you surf, the program saves pages you view for easier access later, and files them under Search History. Click My Web from yahoo.com or download the My Yahoo toolbar...
...challenge nowadays is to stay anonymous while you're sitting at your computer, potentially in plain view of hackers or spywaremakers. Anonymizer's new Total Privacy Suite for the PC anonymizer.com $50 per year) provides a toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox browser that keeps you safe in three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking...
Look out, surfers: there's a wave of controversy headed your way over the latest version of the Google Toolbar, a popular Web browser add-on that attaches a search box and an extra row of buttons onto Internet Explorer. The new version (available at google.com) includes a feature called AutoLink, which can transform plain text on any Web page into a link that sends users to a related site for more information. AutoLink, though still in beta, has many Web watchers crying foul because it gives Google--not users or publishers of sites in which links are embedded...
Google says it is not receiving any revenue for sending people to Amazon and Carfax. What's more, since users have to click the AutoLink button on the toolbar each time they want to activate the new links, "it is a user-elected feature," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. Mayer says the company plans to give users more say. The map feature allows people to select Yahoo or MapQuest, though Google Maps is the default setting...
...free programs, typically just a few megabytes in size, are easy to download. Once installed, the software gets to work indexing files, a task that can take several hours and is done only when the machine is idle. From then on, you simply click on an icon or a toolbar to use it. Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google .com) works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes...