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-AOL will receive a credit towards advertising purchased through Google's ad program. You might wonder if this will affect the ad auction. It won't. We don't offer preferential treatment on advertising (in either the auction or the display) to any of our partners.
- There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.
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Google confirmed the settlement and released a statement from Lee saying he was "pleased with the terms of the settlement agreement."
Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans would not say when the settlement was reached. He also would not provide details of the settlement, calling it confidential. Google also declined to comment further.
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This is all I got, and email from Google PR:
As you know, a trial date had been set for Jan. 9 in the litigation between
Google, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee and Microsoft regarding a one-year non-compete
period. The parties have settled and have the following statements:
"Microsoft, Dr. Lee and Google have reached an agreement that settles their
pending litigation. The Parties have entered into a private agreement that
resolves all issues to their mutual satisfaction. The terms of the
agreement are confidential and all parties have agreed to make no other
statements to the media regarding it. We are pleased with the terms of the
settlement agreement."
- David Drummond, Google vice president corporate development and general
counsel
"I am pleased with the terms of the settlement agreement."
- Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, president, engineering, product and public affairs, Google
China