Editorial Review 

With the Celebrity Gossip toolbar from MIVA, Internet Explorer users can now get all the latest news and gossip from the celebrity world right in their browser. The Celebrity Gossip toolbar features a scrolling news feed that constantly updates across the middle of the toolbar and lets users know what’s going on in Hollywood and beyond.

The Celebrity Gossip toolbar features a search function at the far left of the toolbar that allows users to access the Starware homepage, FAQ, terms of use, uninstall options, and toolbar preferences menu. The search window serves as both a web search and celebrity news search platform and works just like that of a major search engine, except it doesn’t use any of the major search engines.

The “Celebrity Search” button brings the user to a Starpulse.com home page that features celebrity news, gossip, and photos as well as a healthy dose of ads. This page is a regularly updated source for celebrity gossip, but there are other websites out there that contain a more comprehensive database of celebrity happenings and goings-on.

The news feed that runs continuously across the Celebrity Gossip toolbar brings celebrity news, but its customization is limited. You can’t pick and choose which celebrities you would most like to hear about and uncheck celebrities you don’t care to read about. However, you can pull the feed down to see the most recent news without having to wait for the feed to display them.

There is also a “Movie Reviews” link that brings the user to the lackluster Spill.com movie site where the user is forced to view even more advertising and banners.

The rest of the Celebrity Gossip toolbar buttons are blatant advertising and sponsors such as “Free Music,” “Heavy.com,” and “Bid4Prizes.”

Internet Explorer users searching for the latest celebrity gossip would be much better off getting the dirt on their favorite stars from a dedicated website rather than downloading the Celebrity Gossip toolbar. Upon initial download of the toolbar, anti-virus software warns of malicious software bundled with the Celebrity Gossip toolbar and many remnants of the toolbar software need to be manually removed even after the uninstallation has been completed. The positive factors of the toolbar – the celebrity gossip – can be just as easily obtained by bookmarking your favorite celebrity gossip sites and forgoing the constant exposure to ads running directly in your browser. Unless you are a very big fan of the news that the Celebrity Gossip toolbar brings you, pass on this software.

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