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Is AOL The Key to Microsoft 'Killing' Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wow-this-one-is-getting-overused dept.

VK writes "When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would "kill Google" we had no idea just how direct a method he had in mind. Buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan, as Google relies heavily on the advertising pages that come from AOL, since it now syndicates its search to Google." Update: 09/23 19:20 GMT by J : As our readers pointed out, the original and Reg reprint both typoed "Yahoo" for AOL. Fixed.

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  1. OT: AHHH What happened to Slashdot?!?! by matth · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I go over links they become "non-links" (the little bar under them goes away). The submit a comment page no longer fits on a single page but I have to scroll once or twice.... ARG! SLASHDOT IS GOING DOWN!

    1. Re:OT: AHHH What happened to Slashdot?!?! by WWWWolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Welcome to the bold new era of CSS! Slashdot is moving away from the ancient "Kind of like HTML3.2 + shitload of <FONT> tags" design, and going for CSS-based layout.

      This has really been one of the things many web designers whine about Slashdot. The other is invalid markup (Slashdot's supposed HTML3.2 is so bad it makes people gouge their eyes out, and it's so broken that they have specifically had to block validator.w3.org!) - supposedly that needs a lot more tuning in Slashcode to get it done. At this pace, we can expect Slashdot to do XHTML 1.0 + CSS 2 some time in 2010! Or maybe earlier.

  2. Fonts by Ligur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is larger fonts the key to getting attention to another "Google killer"-story?

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