At the SES San Jose session "Meet the Search Ad Networks", the rep from AOL Search was one of the speakers to introduce their products. When it came time for Q&A, she finally let out the fact that AOL Search is not open to the public and only advertisers chosen by Google and AOL can advertise. (I could hear half-way suppressed boo's).

Why market your product to the general public if you're not even making it available? :confused:

If you're trying to create anticipation and excitement, at least give us some kind of date range of when it will be available. She pretty much said, "Not available, period", or at least that was the feeling I got.