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Internet Grey Areas
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Google Wins The Battle For AOL
Linknet Internet News Digest - December 23, 2005 - It looked
like Microsoft had a deal with AOL to replace Google as the AOL
search engine of record and provider of online advertising
services. This looked like a fantastic coup for Microsoft -- one
that would make them a serious Google competitor on the search
engine and online advertising front. But that deal fell apart
last week and culminated in a phone call on December 16 in which
AOL told Microsoft the deal was off. Google sweetened their
offer and AOL went for it. Under the new deal, Google will pay
$1 billion for 5% of AOL -- about twice the market value -- and
will continue to share advertising revenue with AOL. The stakes
couldn't have been much higher for both companies. AOL accounts
for about 11% of Google's revenue, and to have lost to Microsoft
would have meant a significant shift in the search engine wars.
Microsoft would have gained overnight credibility for both its
search and advertising services. On the AOL side, this deal
stems recent criticism that the company is floundering with
nowhere to go. Not only does this represent a re-valuation of
AOL, but bolsters its efforts to diversify its services and move
towards being something other than just a glorified ISP. For
instance, Google has committed to promoting AOL's services in
sponsored links, including a valuable collection of online
videos that have been languishing. As for Microsoft, it is back
to the drawing board. Time will tell whether the AOL deal helps
or hurts Google. But in the meantime Gates and company have been
effectively blocked from using AOL to help them cut Google down
to size. ==>Microsoft working on another deal? Meanwhile, in a
classic Microsoft move, the company let it be known they are in
discussions with another "tier 1 internet company" to form an
alliance to
counter the Google/AOL deal. In his blog, Ian
McAllister, an MSN program manager wrote, "At the end of the
discussion one of the people I was meeting with threw out a
blanket offer to brainstorm other ways in which our companies
might work together," McAllister wrote in the blog posting "He
then stated that his company was willing to entertain ideas for
working with Microsoft that would help our search and/or
advertising business, with one of the goals being to prevent
Google from dominating those spaces even more than they are
now." Nobody is saying who this other company is, and what they
can bring to the table. Yahoo has been mentioned, but that is
unlikely since they have little to gain from helping Microsoft
win market share in an area in which they are so active. Some
industry analysts think it is likely the other company is a
large high-speed Internet connectivity provider such as Comcast
or AT&T Inc. Joe Wilcox, senior analyst with Jupiter Research
suggests this is the logical move for Microsoft. "Microsoft
would certainly benefit if say a Comcast or some other broadband
providers with popular portals chose MSN as the default search,"
according to Wilcox. These broadband providers are the very
companies that are eating away at AOL's market share. As dial up
subscribers shift to broadband they ultimately end up with a
major provider like a cable company or telco. So it makes sense
for Microsoft to pursue alliances with these providers. Either
way, it is not wise to count Microsoft out just yet.
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