Google Wants a Piece of AOL?

minuszero writes "BBC News is reporting that "Google is said to be in talks with media group Time Warner about a stake in its internet service provider, AOL." Talks are reprted to be in the early stages still, but one possibility is a "three-way joint venture to house AOL's content offering, with Time Warner retaining a controlling interest." Current estimates for this sort of move are around $5bn. The article also claims that Microsoft has also shown interest in tieing up MSN and AOL services." Clearly Google's interest in AOL is their huge CD distribution system, widely regarded as the most advanced in the world as demonstrated by my mailbox.

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Re:First bad analogy of the thread

[LeonGeeste]

Wow, this is depressing. Is it just me here? Normally mods only invoke "overrated" when something gets to +5 but really isn't an intelligent comment. I've just gotten modded down to 0 as "overrated". Similar thing happened in this thread:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=165050&cid=137 72718

Would I be paranoid to think people are still mad at me about the mental illness thread?

Re:Google's interest...?

[ergo98]

Man my submission was a world better than the one they went with. I included details on Microsoft's speculated venture with AOL, and other good links. Slashdot editors stink.