I was visiting AOL today and they had a video posted on their homepage; intrigued by the title I had to take a look and I must admit that it's a little disturbing. While I do believe that it has been edited in some way it's very difficult to pinpoint where. Take a look for yourself and let us know what you think - Spirit or Spoof?

Week after week, we find someone replicating our content, blogs, design, entire site and until today I had no idea that major online companies could be just as stupid. I've even posted that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but AOL has taken it to a whole new level with their Beta site.

AOL accidentally released some organic search data* for one day and from that data a smart math-minded SEO in the Earners Forum figured out click through rates for the top 10 positions in search results. This is some key info that could be used to project Google's SERP % breakdown. I got wind of the news from another Internet Marketing Innovator

Total Searches:9,038,794
Total Clicks: 4,926,623

Click Rank1: 2,075,765

Inside sources say that media giant Time-Warner is seeking to sell all or part of their America Online division. While both Yahoo and Google have been mentioned as possible suitors for such a divestiture, it appears now that Microsoft has entered the arena. Such an acquisition would further consolidate Microsoft's bid to dominate the Internet, especially regarding their seriously flawed browser, Internet Explorer.

The new Netscape/AOL browser is able to toggle between IE and Firefox rendering, attempting to make irrelavant IE/Mozilla idiosyncrasies. There are also significant security enhancements.

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/ebiz/43226.html