🪦 Google Toolbar · 21 years
Google Toolbar was a web browser toolbar that provided a search box in web browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox. Launched December 11, 2000; shut down December 11, 2021 — it lived 21 years. One of 32 Google products killed in 2021. Google Toolbar was a web browser toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Google. It was first released in 2000 for Internet Explorer 5 and above. Google Toolbar was also distributed as a Mozilla plug-in for Firefox from September 2005 to June 2011. On December 12, 2021, the software was no longer available for download, and the main website now redirects to a support page. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/happy-21st-birthday-to-google-toolbar-which-inexplicably-still-exists/ Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).