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Time Warner Inc. is negotiating exclusively with Google Inc. to broaden a lucrative advertising partnership with Time Warner's America Online unit, abruptly ending negotiations early Friday with Microsoft Corp., officials close to the negotiations said.
Was looking forward to some change in the market share!
what the h_ll were they thinking? Could've gained a great source of cash and give Google a black eye while still ending up with tens of billions in the bank. A deal like this doesn't come by everyday
what the hell were they thinking?
Microsoft is business savvy. I promise you that there is a good reason that this deal fell through, other than MS not wanting to invest money in a losing venture.
What a relief.
hmm, maybe drop smart-pricing in favor of "ouch that really smarts!" pricing? :)
Obviously AOL is getting more of the pie or more opportunity to have pie with G coming back in the fold. So if anything this would make G's other revenue streams especially a very stable and large Adsense stream, all the more important.
Web search leader Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) is in exclusive talks to buy a 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s (NYSE:TWX - news) AOL Internet unit for $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday
Isn't there an institution in US to stop monopolists? In Germany this is very usual. Maybe someone should give them a call.
If Microsoft wants any shot at the search market they must improve their search engine. The results stink!
In two competitive markets I work with one site uses doorway pages to hold 8 of the top ten search results for very competitive keywords.
Of course maybe that means people will click on their ads more :-)
Oh well... AOL is a slow sinking ship anyways. Once the non-web savvy generation moves on the amount of searches they provide will fall off substantially.
Now Google has $1 Billion riding on a ship that they are going to have to constantly scoop water out of to keep it afloat.
Perhaps it's worth it to keep their level of search domination on the upward trend. Google has suffered no major loses yet, and if their momentum is broken - much will be lost.
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This has to be one of the best shots MSN has at increasing reach.
Just a guess, but I'd bet I wasnt the only one.
Oh well.
AOL is Google's biggest customer, accounting for about $420 million, or about 10 percent, of Google's revenue during the first nine months of this year, according to regulatory filings
Well, G now pays AOL $1 billion instead the other way around. Interesting to watch how advertising scheme -moneywise- will play between G and AOL if deal follows thru.
Anyways, I agree big time with everyone on this thread. Though I never thought I'd see the day when I was going to start cheering on Microsoft..
(<- ex Netscape employee)
Google, which operates the Internet's dominant search tools, also agreed to highlight AOL's Web properties as sponsored links
I'm feeling a little dumb at the moment. (More than usual.)
Can anyone explain what the quote above (from the article) really means?
For example, try googling "GOOG" and then click on the link. You'll get Yahoo Finance at the top. Maybe that'll go to money.aol.com now.
"The end of Google"
"Google looses biggest battle in its history"
"Ect, Ect, Ect........"
Im laughing, I really am.
I think Google will eventually swallow AOL.
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Web search leader Google Inc. is in exclusive talks to buy a 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet unit for $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
On the one hand you have a known entity - Google - with a huge Advertiser base and known results.
On the other hand you have MS with virtually no mainstream advertisers and a Beta PPC program.
For me it's a no brainer - you gotta go with G.
For our business personally I love the idea that AOL will stay with AdWords. We get a lot of business from AOL customers and the thought of having to start a new PPC program with MS was not appealing. My life is already too busy monitoring AW, Over/Y, AS and our B&M business.
This keeps everything a lot simpler with MSN providing little or no traffic.
