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December 17, 2005

Confirmed - AOL to get preferred placement on Google

by Andrew

From the NYTimes:

If a user searches on Google for a topic for which AOL has content - like information about Madonna - there will be a special section on the bottom right corner of the search results page with links to AOL.com. Technically, AOL will pay for those links, which will be identified as advertising, but Google will give AOL credits to pay for them as part of the deal. They will also carry AOL’s logo, the first time Google has agreed to place graphic ads on its search result pages.

Doesn’t graphic ads fall under Google’s deefinition of “evil?”

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