I have read two things about the Google / AOL partnership that bothers me.
1 - AOL will serve up graphical ads to the current "text only" advertising that Google uses. I'm guessing this means both the ads on Google and the Ad-Sense program. Great! Just what we need. Punching monkeys, throwing footballs to win an XBox 360 on Google!
2 - AOL will get preferred placement of video ads on Google video and they will not be marked as ads. Even Microsoft wouldn't agree to this one.
I think Google needs to look up the definition of evil.