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December 17th, 2005 
QuadsZilla Earlier this week I challenged Google’s management “to digitally sign an oath to never accept compensation in exchange for preference in what we now call the organic SERPs.”
They have responded.
According to the New York Times, (via grewolf and TW) in order to secure it’s 5% stake in AOL:
Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before.
Isn’t it always the case? The ones who are the most pious: the ones with that annoying “holier than thou” attitude: the ones who are preaching to others how they “do no evil” turn out to be the biggest hypocrites of them all.
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and they paid for the privilege!
I expected this to say the least.
so how can we get some aol content to spam then
google wants those AIM accounts. they hired the gaim lead developer, see integration between google talk and AIM in the immediate future.
It should come as no surprise, thou it does surprise me Google fell for it even thou it had to happen, sooner or later…
See …
First of all, anytime a company grows big, they get to a point where they get so big that the company is no longer able to distinguish its head from its arse. This happens to every single corporation has ever existed and will ever exist, it appears inevitable. Furthermore, it has been my experience anytime you’re dealing with the Time-Warner corporation, any of it’s affiliates, sponsors, employees, customers, or really anyone who thinks or acts like they do, it is required that you be a hypocritical holier-than-thou arsehole. Fail to act like them (and be like them) and they want nothing to do with you, for they are better than us.
Haven’t you learned anything from the network that ‘pwns’ 10 percent of all Internet subscribers, yet misteriously enough manages to deliver less than 1 percent of all search engine traffic? Has to do with how good they are, I am sure.
I’ll leave the dmoz k’ruption for a later discussion …
On Google’s impartiality
Bad, bad guys at the SEO Black Hat spotted the following passage in the news:
Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done befor…