Jim Holden Blog

Google to buy5% AOL stage at $1billion

December 19th, 2005

Anyone need any more evidence that [[http://www.google.com||Google]] is not the “good” we have all been PR’d into thinking. They are about to make a massive investment into [[http://www.aol.com||AOL]] (Part of Time Warner). [[http://www.aol.com||AOL]] are horrible in so many ways it’s difficult to list. [[http://www.google.com||Google]] getting into bed with them is just confirmation for me that they are getting to big, know too much and we will all eventually regret giving them our “base”.

Single dominance of one company in technology is bad for business. It’s prooved time and again with Intel (pre AMD) and Microsoft [too many things to mention] (pre suits) being the big two. Allowing a single entity to steer and direct the way forward is not good and can only end in said company getting caught up in it’s own hype to the point when it all blows up and the user base suffers. Google is either going to *be* the internet or kill it.

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