Did Microsoft come out the winner by losing AOL to Google?


	Did Microsoft come out the winner by losing AOL to Google?

egoldstein

12-17-2005 11:33 PM

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egoldstein says:

This person sure thinks so. The more i read about what Google gave to get this deal, the more i question it too.

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