Google is the real Big Brother from the book “1984″? According to Benjamin Edelman, who says that Google’s Toolbar will continue to tracks your every browsing move when you’ve authorized it or NOT. The page is a bit technical for most layman but in summery, when enhanced features are enabled in the Google Toolbar, the URL for all websites visited are sent to Google. In return, Google adds some additional information, such as “PageRank”, “Related Sites”, and “Sidewiki” to the Toolbar. That’s to be expected. The Problem come in to place when you disable this feature, URLs are still sent to Google for processing.
Turning off the Toolbar’s enhanced features is an option, but Edelman says that Google designed the Toolbar like the “Hotel California”. Edelman writes, “disabling Enhanced Features seems to require uninstalling Google Toolbar altogether, and in any event disabling Enhanced Features certainly lacks any comparably-quick command.”
