Should Yahoo and AOL Merge?

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Will Yahoo merge with AOL just to thwart Microsoft? It's something everyone in the valley is talking about, that's for sure.
And it is an interesting idea since AOL does best what Yahoo wants to do: become a big-time content player so it can sell more advertising.

It's even possible that Google will encourage this sort of deal to foul up Microsoft , a company that Google is seeing as more and more of a threat.

Google is the only company outside of Time Warner with a piece of AOL. In late 2005 the company bought 5% of the company for $1 billion valuing AOL at $20 billion. Some thought that this was the foot in the door for Google to eventually take over the company, a division of Time-Warner.