AOL, You've Got SEO

As part of the deal with Google, the search advertising company will teach AOL how to optimize its pages for best placement in the Google rankings. Take the billion dollars Google is throwing at Time Warner for five percent of AOL, and Google will throw in some lessons on search engine optimization. The New York Times "The Search" author John Battelle, whose Federated Media has the New York Times Company as an investor, commented in the Times that the search placement, and a similar arrangement for videos in Google Video, "represents a step closer to a slippery slope" for Google. AOL co-founder Steve Case here. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") |