Google and AOL- what’s the deal?

John Battelle: “Er, you’ve been an AOL partner – in a very major way – for more than five years. And you’re NOW just getting around to this? AOL has never talked to Google about redirects? Indexing non HTML content? Robots.txt? I find that, well, hard to believe. Something is not quite adding up.”

While Google insists they haven’t changed direction, I agree with John that this deal is fishy. Should be interesting to watch…