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Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. Uh? by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea, a lot of people would pay 1 billion dollars just to look at AOL's content. OMGWTFLOLOLROFLCOPTERS

    Jeez, why didn't they just use one of the damn free cds?

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    1. Re:Uh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      When Google came for the AOL'ers, I said nothing, because I was not a 12 year old girl.
      When Google came for the MSN'ers, I said nothing, because I was not a 50 year old grandma.
      When Google came for the Myspace'rs, I said nothing, because I was not a 15 year old emo freak.
      When Google came for the Yahoo'ers, I said nothing, because I was not a mentality retarded person.

      Then, Google came for slashdot, and I was like.. meh.. whatever.

    2. Re:Uh? by geniusj · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... If microsoft had bought this steak in AOL ...

      Yum..

  2. We won't rest by Randall311 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until the entire planet is indexed. They have the capital and unlimited resources available to make it happen.

  3. Justice Leauge? by modi123 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does this phrase "Our goal is to organize all of the world's information. When we say 'all the world's information,' this includes AOL's" sound like some cheesy evil super-villains group motto... You know... the kind of evil group the JLA would send Aquaman to fight?

    Batman: Green Lantern, the Legion of Doom is attacking the UN! Scramble the team.

    Green Lantern: Right. On it!

    Aquaman: Oh - oh - oh! Can I go this time? I swear I won't leave a fishy smell on the plane's leather seats!

    Batman: Ahm.... well... yeeeeah. We were going to take you but... Oh! How about you go fight the Google-League! They are trying to organize all of the world's information!

    Green Lantern: Yeah! You would be perfect - with your power to... communicate, with fish.

  4. AOL to press 1 billion more CDs by sxmjmae · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news...
    AOL is mailing out 1 billion more CDs to the US market!

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  5. Glindows?? by charlesnw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why don't Google and Microsoft merge already!?!? I mean think about it for a minute. They are fighting each other like crazy. The only way they can both realize there goals and make tons of money easily is to merge. No more fighting. No more out bidding each other. Or put another way Google/Microsoft Market capatilzation: 200 Billion Dollars. No more slashdot stories about M$ Google wars: Priceless Google wants to index every bit of information everywhere. Video. Audio. IM. E-mail. HTML/XML/PDF/DOC/XLS/PPT on and on and on. Microsoft wants Windows on every computing device out there. What better way to accomplish both those goals then to merge? Oh you want powerful anytime/anywhere access to your info? Well just install Glindows 2007. Oh yeah we strip the metadata out! ;) Can you say big brother?

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