Now it’s offical that google is just too big! Aol recently bought a 5% share of AOL for $1 billion dollars. They beat Microsoft and Yahoo. I’m not sure why they had to buy a 5% share in the company to advcertise to AOLer’s. Read the Full story here

I mean AOL has advertising procedures already set up, are they really making all the other advertisers buy a stake in the company? It makes you wonder why they would do it. Perhaps they only did it because Microsoft and Yahoo wanted to do it too. Why did Microsoft and Yahoo want to do it? Perhaps they only because google wanted to do it.

Shouldn’t they have to pay to use the google search engine like everyone else, instead of getting paid? Somehow this deal is suspected to end up with whomever the “winner” was providing search capabilities for AOL. but AOL already has search capabilities provided by google. Now google gets to keep ad revnue generated by AOL’s captive users I would imagine but they had that already. This deal doesn’t make sense to me at all but what do I know about big business?

What does this mean for AOL users? Nothing. They will still be a captive audience. Thier e-mail addresses will still be sold, they will still be spammed by what is the world largest spam company (AOL), their AOL browsers will still crash frequently, they will still receive sub-standard security tools like anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware (isn’t AOL itself spyware). They will of course remain the laughing stock of all internet users. And of course, they will still pay more to acess the internet, even though, most of the time, they aren’t really on the internet, but something that looks like it.