Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 23, 2005 @02:21AM from the only-time-will-tell dept.

arrrrg writes "Google has responded to speculation of biased search results and flashy banner ads arriving in the wake of their recent $1 Billion deal with AOL. On their official blog, they deny that users will see any negative changes. In particular they maintain that search results will remain unbiased and the site will remain free of banner ads." From the post: "Indexing more of AOL's content. Our goal is to organize all of the world's information. When we say 'all the world's information,' this includes AOL's. We're going to work with the webmasters at AOL -- just as we work with webmasters all over the world -- to help them understand how the Google crawler works (with regard to robots.txt, how to use redirects, non-html content, etc.) so we don't inadvertently overlook their content."

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Re:Article Text by Andrewkov · 2005-12-23 02:51 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If I'm not gunna read TFA, why would I read your cut-and-paste job that may or may not be edited?
Outrageous! by artemis67 · 2005-12-23 03:23 · Score: 1, Flamebait

One billion dollars, just to show AOL how to use robots.txt!

Hell, they could have paid me five hundred million and I would have done it for them for half price!