AOL & AIM & Advertising & Google Leo on 09 Nov 2007 04:44 pm
Google Talk Integrates with AOL’s AIM
It seems as if Google Talk will finally be integrated with AOL’s AIM client.
This upgrade to Google Talk and AIM couldn’t have happened any later!
It has been two years since Google bought 5% of AOL and announced, amongst other things, that the integration of the two clients would occur as long as certain conditions were met.
As to how the integration will work or what all the conditions may be, that is still largely unknown, but it is safe to bet it has something to do with Google serving ads through AIM.
Given that Google has been strategically partnering with and acquiring many companies that it now uses to serve ads through. It seems like the most logical step for Google is to now desire to serve ads through AIM, the most popular instant messaging on the web.
If my predictions become a reality, Google will take on step forward to becoming the one stop shop for anyone looking to buy ads in RSS feeds, search engines, in many popular web destinations, and a many other, now unforeseen, locations- basically almost the whole internet.
on 12 Nov 2007 at 2:21 pm 1.morduun said …
Meh. I already get ads on AIM. What will the Google angle add? Will it send users ads that are contextually sensitive to their chat?
If so, I see a great windfall for porn sites in the near future. I mean, this IS AOL we’re talking about here, after all.