note to the previous poster, i hope google doesnt just come out with software aiming at groups,. thats what microsoft does.

sorry that comment was for ‘walt’ not the previous poster

Why would AOL do this? It seems kind of foolish to do something like this before microsoft even comes out with its supposedly “improved” ad software.

Nostalga of the 80’s. Buncha Cheats!

as a surfer, i like google better. the results are no nonsense and faster.
but, as a web designer, I sortof like msn better because they crawl pages faster and they seem to crawl more links to my websites.

Poor AOL users.

So let me get this straight, perhaps the best known provider (known for sending free coasters to your doorstop) is dropping support for the best known search engine (known for its quality) in exchange for the added benefits of increased advertising on the user’s desktop with the help of the best known software company (know for blue screens of death)?

Let just hope people don’t hear about FireFox and start turn off that advertising.

In all seriousness, what this tells me is that Microsoft and AOL believe that the average user on the internet is too dumb to do anything other than be force fed choices. Sadly, they may be right.

My guess? Google will come out with some more even impressive software aimed right at that group.

[…] They dropped, Google.com.  In an interesting turn of events, AOL is no longer going to be using Google as their search provider, instead they will incorporate MSN search. […]

Wait. Is that butterfly shoving an L up its…

This will certainly make AOL more atractive for Google to come out ahead of Microsoft…. strategic decision to raise their selling price.

[…] read more | digg story […]

Funny, if you read the story, it doesn’t claim that this is going to happen, it’s pretty clear that it’s supposition, and nothing more.

Given this recent news:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/20/technology/aol_google.reut/index.htm

We can see that not all rumors are true.

If you guys check out the news recently, Google just bought a 5% stake in AOL. I’m wondering if that had anything to do with the new decision. Any thoughts?

hummm…dont really know much about this..but..isnt msn one of aols competition?

i am excited to see what happens

aol blocked msn from emailing any one with a aol email address,bad move! lot of my aol buddys are leaveing aol because of it.was going to go to a pc and us aol but not now!woner by law if aol can really do this block thing on msn?