AOL Rumors Heat Up Again

As what seems to be now the “Festival of AOL” where AOL hasn’t been in the news for some time, so rumors of its purchase flood the news. Currently, Yahoo! is the “leader” with Google wanting a piece too because it doesn’t want to lose out to Yahoo!, and then, Microsoft has to get involved because it can’t allow Google to get anything else.

I don’t know about you, but it sounds pretty pathetic to me.

We all know the reason that AOL is being pursued isn’t because of their technology - as it is awful. It is their list. According to my contact at Microsoft, who asked not to be named or he’d probably be fired, the reason the AOL list is so great is “those people tend to be more gullible than others and can be easily swayed to buy things they don’t need.”

Didn’t Bill Gates invent the marketing ploy of having people buy things they didn’t need?

I will continue my current pace, and “yawn” whenever AOL “talks” are mentioned.