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Terri · Mar 5, 2003, 11:22 PM

So I'm reading the board and I see an ad for the Google toolbar. I've always known that the Google toolbar is a IE Windoze only utility but I clicked it anyway just in case they had actually came out with a version that worked on a Mac.

Screen shoot,
http://cleocrap.com/macnn-ad.jpg

wataru · Mar 6, 2003, 12:30 AM

Originally posted by Terri:
So I'm reading the board and I see an ad for the Google toolbar. I've always known that the Google toolbar is a IE Windoze only utility but I clicked it anyway just in case they had actually came out with a version that worked on a Mac.

Screen shoot,
http://cleocrap.com/macnn-ad.jpg

Wrong forum. All of MacNN is Mac-related but this belongs in the OS X forum? Try the lounge.

gorickey · Mar 6, 2003, 12:39 AM

Originally posted by Terri:
So I'm reading the board and I see an ad for the Google toolbar. I've always known that the Google toolbar is a IE Windoze only utility but I clicked it anyway just in case they had actually came out with a version that worked on a Mac.

Screen shoot,
http://cleocrap.com/macnn-ad.jpg

Who's "Clueless" here again?

BTP · Mar 6, 2003, 02:17 PM

You're using IE? Ewww..

Ugh, that dress..and where did you get those shoes?!

BuonRotto · Mar 6, 2003, 03:58 PM

I've seen Dell ads and Tablet PC ads on other Mac boards to. The best ones are the faked Windows dialogs like, "YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS NOT OPTIMIZED!"

Peter · Mar 6, 2003, 04:39 PM

Originally posted by BuonRotto:
I've seen Dell ads and Tablet PC ads on other Mac boards to. The best ones are the faked Windows dialogs like, "YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS NOT OPTIMIZED!"

did it fool you?
The google ad is crappy

would be okay if it was a nice one, but that is just poor

For the users of IE:Mac, you know there is Safari now? and Camino? and Omniweb?

Terri · Mar 6, 2003, 04:52 PM

Originally posted by PeterClark2002:
For the users of IE:Mac, you know there is Safari now? and Camino? and Omniweb?

Yeah so?

I spend most of my day filling out online forms and checking what my sites look like in the browser that most of the web uses.

Well actually most of the web uses IE for Windoze, but IE for Mac comes close enough that I can get by.

Safari is nice, but I don't like the way it deals with bookmarks, does not have IE style auto fill, and doesn't display some of the sites where I do business correctly. Hopefully the non beta version will address these issues.

When I saw the ad for the Google toolbar I was really hoping that they had came out with a Mac version. Right now I have to use it in Windoze IE for checking page rankings.

Peter · Mar 6, 2003, 04:56 PM

Originally posted by Terri:

When I saw the ad for the Google toolbar I was really hoping that they had came out with a Mac version. Right now I have to use it in Windoze IE for checking page rankings.

Hmm I do like the google bar, the highlight section is very useful. Perhaps in the next release of IE for mac you'll be able to install it?

CharlesS · Mar 6, 2003, 05:10 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Who's "Clueless" here again?

I think the point was that a Mac board shouldn't advertise software that doesn't run on a Mac.

FWIW, I agree. I also sometimes see ads for Windows XP on here. What's up with that?

<obvious>Of course, if you want the Google toolbar, you can use Safari, which includes this by default.</obvious>

Terri · Mar 6, 2003, 05:16 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Of course, if you want the Google toolbar, you can use Safari, which includes this by default.

Nope, it includes a Google search box. The Google toobar does a lot more, like show page ranking.

Superchicken · Mar 6, 2003, 08:03 PM

I love those fake windows dialouge boxes... although the best one I saw was an add for Pentium 3 notebook computers on ebay... with a stock pic of an apple 17 inch power book hahaha!