Google Pack: Software bundling and updating system was discontinued as of Sept. Slide, acquired for $179 million, was shut down a couple weeks ago, as were numerous other projects (Google Friends, APIs, Firefox Toolbar, Google Directory, Google...
Google Releases Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer Posted by Feb 25, 2009 It's hard to read and write the news about Google's Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer without thinking of how it must result from their official position siding with the EU...
It's hard to read and write the news about Google's Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer without thinking of how it must result from their official position siding with the EU against Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows.
That was supposed to begin yesterday, and bundling with other Adobe products will happen in the future. Both Adobe (PDF link) and Google have announced a new deal where Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe
That was supposed to begin yesterday, and bundling with other Adobe products will happen in the future. Both Adobe (PDF link) and Google have announced a new deal where Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe
As for the Abobe-Google deal, the bundling with Google Pack wasn't based on payment, Google told me at the time. That was supposed to begin yesterday, and bundling with other Adobe products will happen in the future.
Information on Google Pack already went live briefly on Google earlier today, but now the software bundling and updating system has been formally announced. Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
FYI, some other bundling deals include an arrangement with Sun for distribution of the Google Toolbar, a bundling deal with WinZip to distribute the Google Toolbar and Google Desktop and a similar one with InterVideo.
There's also an arrangement with Sun for distribution of the Google Toolbar, a bundling deal with However, the company did recently do a bundling deal to put its applications on Lexar flash drives, the latest in a series of deals.
Google UI designer Kevin Fox chimes in on the comments at Jeremy's blog about dislike the tactics as well and defending Google's bundling of tools with WinZip as being "upfront. Go with the defaults, and you'll not just get Yahoo Messenger but...
A recap of some recent stories, plus a closer look at how I come away mislead by one of Ask's bundling partners. Curious to see for myself, I took at look at iMesh today, one of Ask's bundling partners mentioned in Edelman's original report and...
Dow Jones has a brief article about InterVideo, the company that develops and sells WinDVD Creator, DVD Copy, and Media One announcing a bundling deal with Google. Two other bundling deals that quickly comes to mind are
A Wired News article talks about several newspapers preparing to launch their own branded RSS/feed aggregators and then bundling individual feeds (from disparate sources) into various topics that users can choose from.
For another, Google recently embarked on its first significant software bundling deal that I can recall, to have its toolbar as an installation option for those using the Real Player. It could be that more of these are planned, and that Google...
