Google is speeding up the pace ahead of the holidays and various teams at the company are working to get what they’ve been working on out the door. The Google Toolbar is the latest to get an update and comes with a couple of big new features for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The biggest announcement is the new Share feature which does what its name suggests, it allows users to share web pages on a number of social networks, blogs or by email. The second feature is the My Location geolocation tool which made its way out of Labs and into the main product for the IE version.
“We’ve been busy working on even more ways to make web browsing easier and more fun. First off is our new Share feature in Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. This makes it easy for you to share any page on the web with your friends over various social networks, blogs or email,” Mina Radhakrishnan, Toolbar product manager writes. “With this new release, we’ve also “graduated” the My Location feature from Toolbar Labs. It’s now available in Toolbar for Internet Explorer (Firefox already has a similar feature built in to the browser).”
First up, the Share feature. This kind of functionality is hardly anything new at this point, most sites, blogs and services have some sort of Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc… (read more)