Microsoft has also created a Web site , where users will find components created by third parties to extend the toolbar’s desktop search functionality.

Microsoft reached an agreement with Lenovo Group to pre-load Lenovo computers with a toolbar of Microsoft's Windows Live online services including Web search, the two companies said on Tuesday.

Yahoo releases a test version of its toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Microsoft launched the final version of its MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search as it chases Google for a wider audience share of the search market.

Video search company Blinkx today is slated to launch a free downloadable toolbar consisting of several search "channels"--news, video, images, blogs, Wikipedia, shopping, and "people"--the ...