Previously visited sites in a Google search not highlighted on page

I'm referring to the purple highlighting of a previously visited site in a Google page. This isn't working in Safari (3.1.2) any more. It is working with Firefox for Google, and it still works with Safari in the Apple Discussions pages or Open DNS listing, but not on Google. This must be something to do with Safari and Google. I don't see anything relating to this in Google or Safari Preferences. Hope this is only a temporary problem with Safari and Google.
Any ideas? Thanks.

More information: Safari crashed once last night, and now getting a number of these messages in Console which might be related, since Safari seems to be up when they appear and Google search on this turns up some posts related to Safari behavior :
SyncServer[319] A Sync Server is already running on this computer, exiting process.

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