Going AOL

摘要

During the 1990s AOL helped millions of people get online for the first time, with its dial-up service and friendly e-mail system. This caught the attention of Time Warner, a media giant which merged with AOL in 2001, at which point AOL began a rapid decline. Simultaneously Google began an equally rapid ascent, and it now dominates web search and online advertising. As if to provide a coda to this tale, Time Warner has just poached the man within Google who has the most clout in the advertising industry, Tim Armstrong, and made him boss of AOL.