Microsoft Starts Stalking AOL Search
Posted by HappyAndyK on 23 July 2008 - 02:01 · 9 comments & 2813 views
Microsoft has started talks with Time Warner to buy its AOL subsidiary. AOL, formerly America Online, has emerged as an alternative for the software giant which, in results reported last week, recorded a net profit of £2.2bn in April-to-June but lost around £445m from its online advertising division. Silicon Valley insider Henry Blodget said a team from Time Warner/AOL met executives at Microsoft's Seattle headquarters last Tuesday. "The two have talked many times before. But this is reportedly the closest the companies have come to a deal so far," said Blodget. "It sounds as though Microsoft is now working more diligently on a Plan B."

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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by majortom1981 on 23 Jul 2008 - 02:32
Aim combined with msn messenger could be really cool.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by thenonhacker on 26 Jul 2008 - 14:00
So this is the Microsoft-AOL merger I read about in emails sent by my friends since 1999. I heard Bill Gates will reward money to those who forward the email.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Swordnyx on 23 Jul 2008 - 05:22
Wow how strange.. I predicted that if they didn't buy Yahoo, they would try AOL, months ago..

Everything is going according to plan.. muhahaha. ha.

Really, this is too freaky.
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by seebaran on 23 Jul 2008 - 13:03
And let the anti-AOL comments commence....

Seriously though, I wish AOL to rebrand itself and stay away from MS. AOL has superior web content in comparison to its main competitors and I wish to see them reinvent themselves to get rid of the old ISP stigma everyone here still bashes them over.
Quote this comment #2.2 Posted by IceBreakerG on 23 Jul 2008 - 13:26
To seebaran,

Old habits die hard It's not exactly "easy" to just stop bashing AOL. Especially when you've been doing it for like 10yrs.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Bahiatronic on 23 Jul 2008 - 13:35
Wait a minute, isn't AOL search powered by Google? (even u are on the front page it said Enhanced by Google) O_O... Is MS making a joke or something? They should buy Ask.com rather tha AOL!!
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by thealexweb on 23 Jul 2008 - 13:45
Ask is also powered by someone else, can't remember whyo, if they bought AOL they would just power it by Live instead.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by HalcyonX12 on 23 Jul 2008 - 22:15
So they're going to start buying portals and switching their engines over to Live to get market share?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Faisal Islam on 23 Jul 2008 - 17:38
Good Job MS LOL

Yahoo, Aol, Facebook. What about Google? I want "Microsoft Google" lolz
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