Best of the blogs: A lesson lurks in Google's $1 billion purchase of AOL, Matt Asay writes in Open Resource. "Never, ever trust a capitalist who pretends to be otherwise." The problem, it seems, is that Google promised favored placement of AOL content as part of the deal, something it has never done before.
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