I think cash or other values. Monetary arrangements are still undisclosed. The official version dont tell us much about it.
www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bg/2002/09/13/69308.html
One thing is for sure, The french version of the Sympatico portal gets a lot more visitors and page views since they switched to Google. So the portal gets more revenues.
I know switching to Google was an unilateral move from Sympatico. The negociaciations for an arrangement took some time. I will try to know more.
