Uh Oh
I tend to give Google the benefit of the doubt about things because their search results have stayed unbiased, they’ve introduced new quality products, and their advertisements are relevant and unobtrusive. This deal could change all of that and make Google into a Yahoo! or MSN clone.
Yuck. Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn is trying to sink the deal, and if it does go through, Google may just quietly introduce AOL content to the list of modules that users can add to their personalized Google home pages, but the concessions Google apparently will make look pretty dubious.
- Google deal to include AOL ads partnership (Financial Times)
- Billionaire blasts Google-AOL deal (News.com)