The Google Toolbar

To make it possible to the Net surfer to make a search on the Web even more easily and quickly, but of course also to increase the number of its users, Google developed a small program called Google Toolbar , which adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer. You can type in your keywords directly inside and obtain the results in the navigator as if you had gone on the homepage of Google to make your search.

In addition to a fast access to search, this bar also indicates information on the current page: its PageRank and the related category of the Google Directory.

The PageRank is schematized by a horizontal green bar, more or less wide. By pointing the mouse above, you obtain a number between 0 and 10. This number is only one rough approximation of the actual value of PageRank, which is a number much more precise (either a big integer number, or a number with decimals).