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Google Counters AOL Deal Speculation
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."
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.