Adobe is distributing the Google Toolbar with downloads of Shockwave. Will the Flash player be far behind?

On the one hand I don’t like seeing things like this bundled together but it isn’t so bad when you get a notification during install so that you can choose.

Otherwise I’m very happy to see Google and Adobe working together. Perhaps this will lead to Google treating SWFs better when it comes to indexing. Better yet I’d like to see Google use Flash more often in their offerings. Google Maps is very good but I think Yahoo’s beta Map is better and it uses Flash. There’s even a mashup out there of Google Maps redone with Flash that is better.

And remember, this comes on the heals of the news that PDF exporting won’t be included in the next version of MS-Office. So that relationship is going south. I wonder if anyone at MS is aprehensive about the likes of Google and Adobe working closely together.