Adobe Boxes Up Google Toolbar

A multi-year deal between the two companies will see Adobe offer the Google Toolbar as an option for people who download the Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player. Users can select the announced. In the future, the Toolbar will be offered as part of other Adobe product installations. Adobe said hundreds of thousands of its Shockwave Players are downloaded each day. The company claimed to have an installed base of Shockwave Players on 55 percent of Internet-enabled desktops as well. Google listed some of the features available in its Toolbar, like a search box, spellchecker, and popup blocker. A selection of buttons from the Toolbar Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.