Leslie Franke

Google has jumped onboard the user search history bandwagon. Go to My Search History (you will need to create a Google account) and your search history will be part of every Google search you do. While others have been on the forefront of this concept, this is a major move for Google.

The question is whether I want Google to store all of my searches. In some situations I can see how it would be useful. The good thing is that they allow you to pause the recording and remove searches from your history.

Netscape has just made a public release of Netscape Browser 8.0 Beta. The browser is based on Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and offers support for both the Gecko (Mozilla) and Internet Explorer rendering engines. I have been playing with this beta for awhile and there are several cool, new features:

• Site Controls allows users to enable and disable features like ActiveX and cookies on a per site basis.
• Multi-Bar allows users to have many screen widgets like map searches, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts.

Now if they would only get rid of that ugly default user interface.