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Why Was Google So Desperate for AOL?
By Larry Hendrick | December 18, 2005
I asked this same question yesterday and today, I find I’m not alone. Rob at Business Week is wondering the same things and coming up with the same answers. HUH???
The folks at Google are extremely smart and have proved their prowess in the financial areas over and over again, but…
Why Was Google So Desperate for AOL?
I don’t get it. Here’s a company that seems to have everything going for it–absurdly high revenue growth and profits and a $127 billion market cap. But according to this New York Times story:
Google will also provide technical assistance so AOL can create Web pages that will appear more prominently in the search results list. But this assistance will not change computer formulas that determine the order in which pages are listed in Google’s search results.
Topics: Business |
September 4th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Why does AOL appear when I’m searching in google? It really doesn’t help my search