GOOGLE TOOLBAR

'Google Toolbar' is an Internet browser toolbar available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (with slightly different features).

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Features

Standard

Internet Explorer Only

Firefox Only

Google Compute

References

See also

External links

Features

Standard

★ Google search box using Google Suggest

★ SpellCheck

★ AutoLink

★ AutoFill

★ Translator

★ PageRank display

★ Send to: send webpage via SMS, GMail or to a Blogger blog

★ Google Account sign-in

★ Google Bookmarks

★ Google Toolbar Custom Buttons

★ Orkut link

Internet Explorer Only

★ Search Settings Notifier

★ Pop-up blocker

★ Address bar browse by name

Firefox Only

★ Open files in Google Docs & Spreadsheets

★ Customize the layout

★ Handle mailto: links with Gmail.

Google Compute

'Google Compute' was a separately downloadable add-on for the Google Toolbar which allowed participation in a distributed computing project to help scientific research. It started on a limited basis in March 2002^[1] and ended in October 2005.^[2]
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Google Compute enabled a user's computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when the computer would otherwise be idle. When one enabled Google Compute, the computer downloaded a small piece of a large research problem and performed calculations on it that were then included with results from thousands of other computers. Google Compute was only available for the English language version of the Google Toolbar.^[4]
The effort's first, and so far only, contribution was to Folding@home, a non-profit endeavor to model the process of protein folding in order to better understand and cure many different diseases. The Google Compute homepage recommends that users wishing to continue contributions to the project download the official Folding@home client.

References

1. Google tests distributed computing Stefanie Olsen
2. Support center "The Google compute program has ended."
3. Is Google quitting the project?
4. Google takes on supercomputing Stephen Shankland

See also

★ Form filler

★ List of distributed computing projects

★ Folding@home

★ SETI@home

External links

★ Google Toolbar (redirects based on browser)