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Archive for the ‘AOL’ Category

February 17th, 2008

AOL Joins the Game

AOL now joins the game. According to the Press Association, whose website is hosted in google, AOL’s advisers met with representatives from Yahoo to see if a deal is workable.
There is no definite terms available yet as of now.
One thing for sure is that Yahoo has choices apart from the one given by […]

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August 13th, 2007

Engines Comment on their Own Privacy

Last week CNET News.com sent 8 questions to each search engine in an attempt to rank them based on their own observation of themselves. This is in an attempt to help people understand the different policies used by each engine on specific issues. The engines included AOL, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and the questions […]

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April 7th, 2007

Google Adwords to Private Label AOL Ads

Back in December of 2005 Google formed a strategic partnership with AOL for providing Google’s search & sponsored results on the AOL platform. This partnership is being strengthened this week with the introduction of an Adwords “private labeled” ad platform for AOL customers.
Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX.N: Quote, Profile , Research) AOL division will introduce […]

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November 6th, 2006

AOL Needs to be SEOed

In an attempt to look beyond search AOL started to understand that search traffic may be the way to go and admits that as far as SEO and the parts of their site visible to the different search engines, only 15% is crawled and the rest, about 85% is still invisible, because it used to […]

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August 9th, 2006

AOL Releases Search Dataset

AOL Research had released this week a dataset collected of 500,000 users over the course of 3 months. Shortly after they pulled it back fearing privacy issues that may come up. This move, however, was too late as mirrors were already posted, and now even tools are being built, such as this one which is […]

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December 15th, 2005

More “Top 2005 Searches”, Lycos & AOL

Earlier today I posted about Yahoo’s Top Searches for 2005. I just found the AOL Search Year in Review for 2005 (compared to 2004) , as well as Lycos’s Top 100 search terms of 2005.
[Found via Search Engine Watch]
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October 13th, 2005

Google Now Wants a Piece of AOL & Registers Some Strange Domain Name

Financial Times reports today that Google had teamed up with Comcast to “take a joint minority stake in Time Warner’s AOL internet portal unit.”
While they were on it, they aparently wanted to make sure that no one can own the domain GoogleMotherFucker.com and registered it to their name. This domains joins a long list of […]

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September 23rd, 2005

AOL.com Portal Leaves Beta

After 3 months of beta, AOL’s new portal is officially released.
The new portal is pretty nice, very clean look. It features tabbed searching as well as links to many of AOL’s different services.
Nicely done.
[Source…]
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September 23rd, 2005

AOL is off the Market

For the past week there have been several rumors claiming that AOL’s time is up and that it is up for sale. MSN and Google were also mentioned as potential buyers.
These rumors have come to an end today when
Josh Berger, the managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment UK, has warned against his company selling […]

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July 28th, 2005

AOL launches web based RSS reader

AOL has launched a new web based RSS reader under the banner of My AOL beta.
The new service is clean and quick, and although it lacks general topic search capabilities (for release later) it works well. Suprisingly perhaps, is that its works, at the moment, without the need to register, so for casual use […]

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