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Google Bundles Toolbar With Adobe Apps

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jab-landing-close-to-home dept.

grammar fascist writes "Sci-Tech Today reports that Google is paying a 'significant amount' to bundle Google Toolbar with certain Adobe downloads. From the article: 'The initial venue for the Google mini-app will be downloads of the popular and free Shockwave multimedia player. The move is seen by some observers as an effort to outflank Microsoft, especially as Internet Explorer 7 nears its formal launch this summer [...] Interestingly, Google's search toolbar will be available only when Shockwave is downloaded for use with Internet Explorer on Windows.'"

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  1. Toolbar? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's Google Toolbar? Is it something like Safari?

  2. TrolL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    shar3. *BSD is

  3. I wouldn't worry about IE7 by QuantumG · · Score: 1, Troll

    It stands to be completely unusable for ordinary users. It can't even save downloads to the desktop anymore.

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  4. Correct me if i'm wrong... by EMacAonghusa · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but was this not in the news already last week?