If you are wondering what made Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer to yell at Google that he will kill the Google during the legal battle regarding Microsoft Employee joining to Google. But no one had any idea what plans he had in mind.

According to the article from The Register, buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan from Steve. Here is the quote from the article:

One estimate suggested that Google would lose as much as $380m of advertising revenue if AOL dropped its search engine and took on MSN’s. That would cut Google’s profit by something like 25 per cent, potentially giving its huge share price something of a tumble. No wonder Google is thought to be entering the bidding to partner with Time Warner on AOL instead of Microsoft.


For more info, check the source article from The Register.