AOL, Seeking to Revitalize Its Internet Role, Turns to a Candid Ex- Yahoo Executive

Mr. Garlinghouse, a former executive of Yahoo is now taking on the role of expanding and fixing some of AOLs most recent problems. Garlinghouse and new chief executive, Tim Armstrong will be working together to help put AOL back on top with the other top companies, such as Yahoo and Google. AOL was said to have formed multiple problems over the years since merging with Time Warner over a decade ago. Time Warner was also said to have recruited other top executives from Google to help make AOL into its own independent company by the end of the year. AOL was once known for its instant messaging as well as email but that too is now ranked 3rd in the email service in the United States. Although Garlinghouse said that he faces significant challenges with AOL, they were not as large as the challenges he once faced with Yahoo in 2006 and is very confident to turn AOL around.

I found this article interesting because it was just the other day in class where we discussed what email we were using. I remember a kid in the class had their AOL email up in the chime of “you’ve got mail” kept going off. I remember hearing that noise and it taking me back to AOL instant messaging and staying up all night in the 5th and 6th grade talking to my friends, and hoping my parents don’t catch me on the computer that late. Mr. Blade had also asked who was using AOL email and the fact that people haven’t used it in years. I also found it interesting that to even sign up to use this blog site, we had to actually make a Google account. I’m curious to see what will happen during the next decade. I wonder if AOL will still be around or maybe Google will the next company to fall by the wayside.