After all the hoohah over the Yahoo! Toolbar being bundled into the Flash installation it seems that Adobe has switched to offering the Google Toolbar instead. Google is apparently parting with a "significant" amount for he honour. I'm not a big fan of bundling. I'm not a big fan of what Adobe has done with Adobe Reader (Acrobat). While switching from Yahoo! to Google isn't actually bad in any way the story has rekindled dormant worries as to how Adobe will manage Flash in the future. Interestingly, Yahoo! is a far bigger consumer of Flash technology than the AJAX-friendly Google is. I believe it was actually one of Macromedia's largest Flash IDE license owners. Wonder if that will change anything.

Somewhat off-topic is the fact that the current Adobe site uses the basic design of the old Macromedia site which had been redirected to Adobe.com -- I always thought the basic structure and design of the Macromedia site was leagues ahead of Adobe's but I'm also slightly dissapointed that they didn't decide to go for something completely new.