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25th September 2007 - Link Blog

Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google. Stories like this crop up every now and then, but no one ever seems to mention that the Google Toolbar has been doing this since it was released (more than five years ago) provided you have PageRank display turned on.

Posted 25th September 2007 at 11:04 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th September 2007.

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