Did AOL Fool Google With Truveo Deal?

By purchasing video search startup Truveo, AOL may have given its pal at Google a little kick in the ribs after making off with $1 billion of their investment. The Motley Fool Google's video content for sale consists of NBA games and some CBS programs. While CSI has been a popular series, its devotees probably have the DVDs already and aren't likely to pay to watch them on a computer when the big-screen TV beckons. While putting some episodes of the 50s Western series "Have Gun Will Travel" on the site has a certain retro-chic to it, there isn't anyone under 40 who knows why Paladin had a in writing, "I think to myself: Er, you've been an AOL partner - in a very major way - for more than five years. And you're NOW just getting around to this? AOL has never talked to Google about redirects? Indexing non HTML content? Robots.txt? I find that, well, hard to believe. Something is not quite adding up." Actually, whatever indignity Google may or may not feel over the Truveo deal should be assuaged in 2008. That's when here. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.