I like it as a search engine. But that does not mean, I love it in the real meaning of the word. Yesterday (!) just a few hours before the end of the ASP-Conference at Munich/Aufkirchen I was surprise the following to see as I opened my browser to visit a interesting site:

I recently found the reason for that effect, but dunno how I get the file on my machine. I scanned today with McAfee and Ad-Aware without any success (happy about that, but does not answer my question). The reason was a file in the Google program folder named ggext1.dll. If I just remove the file (reinstallation of the googlebar does not help), the effect goes away.

Then I saw that picture at google.com:

and received some links of other bloggers from Dare Obasanjo: Jeff Key or also Julia Lerman and now I have the idea where it comes from   But it was really unexpected yesterday (not valentine's day) and I would like they would only modify their own site and let my machine and applications in my hands...