Comments on: What Google Gave Up to Get 5% of AOL

By: Linklog: Read My AntennÃ¦

Linklog: Read My AntennÃ¦ — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:16:51 +0000

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…

By: topsites

topsites — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:47:16 +0000

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 …

By: tpiddy

tpiddy — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:50:40 +0000

google wants those AIM accounts. they hired the gaim lead developer, see integration between google talk and AIM in the immediate future.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:18:12 +0000

so how can we get some aol content to spam then

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:03:02 +0000

I expected this to say the least.

By: oojee

oojee — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:39:33 +0000

and they paid for the privilege!