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To: sixty2nds who wrote (52)	9/16/2005 7:13:17 AM
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07:08 MSFT Microsoft, AOL Discuss Online Partnership -- AP (26.27 ) Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner (TWX) have been discussing potential online partnerships that would help the two companies better compete against rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two people familiar with the talks said Thursday. They two said the discussions have been going on for months and that any possible deal is not imminent. Microsoft and AOL are discussing possible collaboration in search technology, online advertising and instant messaging, said the two sources, one of whom is an executive with Time Warner's America Online unit. The other source, who works closely with Microsoft and has been involved in company discussions on the possible partnership, said the talks have heated up in the last couple weeks but are not advanced. The AOL executive said one aspect of the talks originally centered on using Microsoft's new MSN search engine on AOL, replacing AOL's current relationship with Google (GOOG). Such a collaboration could allow the two companies to benefit from growing interest in search-based advertising, helping them better compete against search leaders Google and Yahoo (YHOO).