RealPlayer hooks Google
p2pnet.net News:- Real’s Rob Glaser has been trying to get A Name to hook up with the languishing RealPlayer and now Google says its Google Toolbar is being distributed with RealPlayer 10 downloads.
"Now, not only Googlers will have the Google Toolbar installed in their IE browser, but by making the Google Toolbar available to the very large number of consumers who install the new RealPlayer 10 every day, Google Toolbar is sure to be popping up on the browsers of more everyday computer users and possibly the browsers of people who prefer Yahoo or other search engines," as the Search Engine Journal puts it here.
The SEJ wonders if this may start a ‘toolbar distribution war’ among search engine companies.
The downloading of the Google Toolbar will be opt-in, "giving the RealPlayer audience the option to download Google onto their browser," says the report.
