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"Thanks, But No Thanks" – AOL Rebuffs Microsoft, Sticks With Google

At Least 10% of Google Inc. Sales Comes From AOL
By Jeremy Geelan
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December 18, 2005 04:15 AM EST
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This is how Google cautioned investors, in an earnings report last month, about the importance of AOL to its financial performance: "If our relationship with America Online were terminated, not renewed or renegotiated on terms less favorable to us, our business could be adversely affected." So it came as a huge relief to the Mountain View, CA-based search Leviathan to learn on Friday that the chief executive of AOL parent company, Time Warner, Dick Parsons, had made a phone call to Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to say that Microsoft's attempt to woo AOL over to its fledgling search technology was over. AOL is sticking with Google.

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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Student Organization Manager 08/31/06 03:17:07 AM EDT

Ahh, how I would have loved to listen in on that phone call. We all know Ballmer's temper. :)