Ask Toolbar

Most people are unclear what the Ask toolbar is and what purpose it serves.  However, for those people who have heard of the Ask toolbar, some may still have questions regarding its functions and the best way to use it.

Ask toolbar is the product from the search engine ask.com. It is absolutely free to download and install from several sources over the web. This toolbar is available as an add-on for browsers like Internet explorer and Firefox.

For IE browsers, it supports the version 6 and above. Operating systems that are supported by the toolbar are Vista and Windows XP, all in 32 bits versions. In order to install the toolbar you will need around 2 MB disk space on the drive where you wish to save the settings. This toolbar features several unique options that you can utilize while browsing.

Privacy is something that is given high priority while utilizing the Ask toolbar. There is no provision of ‘keystroke logging’ or ‘Click stream tracking in this toolbar. Hence you can browse the Internet without any threat of being tracked or watched by any third party. Moreover the Ask toolbar is completely free from any adware or spyware software installations. The toolbar never monitors the sites you are visiting or scrapes information out of them. It does not endorse pop-up advertisements or contextual ads that might hinder your surfing experience. In order to get this toolbar installed you need not provide any personal information that might link with your public profiles.

Among the numerous features of Ask toolbar, the most used one is obviously the search mode. You can obtain images along with the search result pages available from this toolbar. In order to find your search terms more easily, you can use the highlight feature. It helps is enhancing the terms with yellow which is an integral part of its easy user interface. The search history can be deleted permanently from the drop down menu. There is a ‘Resize’ button that you can use in order to shrink or enlarge the page. You can magnify them several folds for easy viewing or reduce the size to make room for other windows.

Using this unique Ask toolbar you can also change the home page or customize the size of the search box. The company promotes several customized toolbar options which are made available in regional languages. Ask Jeeves is the one for users from United Kingdom and rest is for France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

If you are not really happy with the toolbar in use at the moment, try out the Ask toolbar that ensures great browsing without any trivial threat for privacy theft or information leak out.