Custom buttons, query suggestions, bookmarks, sending, and account sign-in features added to IE toolbar.

Google upgraded its toolbar software for Microsoft Internet Explorer on Monday, adding features that suggest ways to finish a query before the user is finished typing, along with custom buttons that allow users to save favorite web sites to the toolbar that runs near the top of the browser window. The enhanced search box in Google Toolbar 4.0 works like the auto-suggest feature already available in the Firefox version of the browser. It also displays spelling corrections and options from the user’s search history and bookmarks.

Mountain View, California-based Google is upgrading the toolbar at a time when Microsoft is readying an upgraded version of its Internet Explorer browser software. Microsoft plans to include a search box of its own within the browser that will steer users to Microsoft’s MSN search service. That could steer users away from Google’s search service. Search toolbars are an important way for search engines to direct users toward their service and away from the service linked to the default search button. Yahoo also markets a search toolbar that runs at the top of the browser, as does Amazon with its A9 search engine and Lycos with its HotBot search engine.

Google also introduced a corporate version of the toolbar on Monday, Google Toolbar for Enterprise. The beta software includes administration tools and control features for business environments. Shares of Google fell $3.00 to $430.49 in recent trading.

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Users can click on the G icon in the Google Toolbar search box to search different Google sites, the current site, or sites for which they have installed custom search buttons. The custom search buttons allow users to add buttons to the toolbar to access favorite Internet destinations or Google services such as Google Scholar or Google Video. Google offers a Button Gallery with different icons that can be added to the toolbar, like the custom toolbar selection provided in Microsoft Word.

“You can make your own buttons in seconds by right-clicking within the search box on any site and selecting ‘Generate Custom Search,’” read Google’s instructions on the site. The new toolbar also allows users to create a set of bookmarks that can be accessed from any computer that has the Google Toolbar installed. The bookmarks are stored online, and when users sign in to their Google account from another computer, the toolbar locates the stored bookmarks.

Users can also access the stored bookmarks from the Search History link in the upper right corner of the Google home page. Google Toolbar also lets users share a particular web page or section of a page with someone else via email, text message, or blog, by highlighting the selection they want to share and clicking on the Send To option in the toolbar. The upgraded toolbar also includes a sign-on feature from within the Settings button. By signing on from within the toolbar, users get access to their GMail account, Google Groups, and personalized home page

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