Monday, March 20, 2006
John Battelle's Searchblog: An Interesting Note in Google's 10K: No Favored Nation Status for AOL:
"Thanks to Bear Stearn's Robert Peck, for doing the work, in the summary of the 10K he finds:
Google also stated that they have substantially completed negotiations with Time Warner and AOL and expect the investment to close in 2Q06. One of the prior elements in the agreement, Âmaking AOL content more accessible to Google web crawlersÂ, was removed, likely due to concerns that Google would give AOLÂs content preferential treatment in its search results. AOL represented 9% of revenues in 05, down from 12% of revenues in 04.
So, it seems, Google and AOL have quietly dropped one of the most controversial elements of the deal. Remember the hubbub (I made a shark jumping comment, you may recall)?"
Just because they dropped it from the 10K does not mean it will not happen ;-)
"Thanks to Bear Stearn's Robert Peck, for doing the work, in the summary of the 10K he finds:
Google also stated that they have substantially completed negotiations with Time Warner and AOL and expect the investment to close in 2Q06. One of the prior elements in the agreement, Âmaking AOL content more accessible to Google web crawlersÂ, was removed, likely due to concerns that Google would give AOLÂs content preferential treatment in its search results. AOL represented 9% of revenues in 05, down from 12% of revenues in 04.
So, it seems, Google and AOL have quietly dropped one of the most controversial elements of the deal. Remember the hubbub (I made a shark jumping comment, you may recall)?"
Just because they dropped it from the 10K does not mean it will not happen ;-)
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