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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More Microsoft/Google News by 110010001000 · 2005-12-23 03:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In other MSFT/GOOG news: Microsoft is going to provide all the search technology for Google in China. It seems that Google is buddying up to all of the Slashdotters favorite companies!