Good Job Google (Score 1)

After Trying it out for a bit and perusing their available add ons, I have to say I am extremely impressed, even for Google. First off, they dont try to shove the sidebar down your throat, as u can still just use it like before and not have problems. Second, they took a page from Firefox's book and make it completely customizable. With all these first party extensions from day one, I have my sidebar my way, and all the extensions are located in one place, just like for firefox. The only thing I have not found yet (or maybe its not there yet) is a way to have my RSS feeds onto the bar, but Ill find out soon enough) That said, google is probably the only company who could pull off such a product, as I think that if M$ or any other company were to try it, it would not come off as polished, customizable, and user friendly. I also think that the sidebar and all its features wont be for everyone. Its probably only gonna appeal to ~50% of users, because the other half wont want the 'clutter' it brings, or to lose precious desktop real estate. As for replacing your webbrowser.... I think not at all. it makes surfing the webv easier in some ways, such as not having to access your gmail web pages, rather u can just look to the sidebar, but it definitley cant replace my daily browsing activities. Although, I think that the next logical step would be for google to take firefox and the sidebar, plus some google genious ideas and features, and make the google browser. With the 4 billion they now have, I could see that happening very easily.