Since writing about the release of a new 'privacy preserving web browser', I have now had a chance to test Browzar for myself and can make the following additional comments:
I do not buy the 'Browzar is adware' comments that have been doing the rounds of the blogosphere, at least it's not adware in the usual sense of the word. What Browzar actually does is push users to its own search interface by default (although there is nothing stopping you from typing the Google URL and going to search there instead, as usual) and then serve up context driven ads courtesy of Overture within the results. The contentious issues being, and the cause of the adware complaints, that these sponsored results are presented within the search results and not separate from them. Naughty, not nice, but not adware in my book.