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AOL makes desktop search move
News AOL's desktop search was not developed in-house but is powered by a third-party's technology, according to a source familiar with the plans. While the source would not reveal AOL's desktop search partner, this person said it was not Google.
[October 15, 2004, 9:35]
Spammer breaks into AOL search engine
News The latest case occurred on Wednesday when America Online's AOL Search and its technology partner Inktomi began displaying thousands of search results that linked to a Web site based in Russia. AOL and Inktomi pulled the bogus results linking to...
[June 20, 2002, 14:12]
Couple object to AOL search for spammer's gold
News A small-town New England couple says AOL's search for a spammer's gold on their property must be stopped. Graham said AOL plans to conduct any search in a professional manner, with an effort to make minimal disruption to the property and its owners.
[August 21, 2006, 8:55]
AOL sorry for search data 'screw-up'
Talkback What gives you the right, in reporting the story of AOL's screw-up, to divulge details of one of the search items, being the name address and telephone number of an individual? Did you amend the data in any way to protect the identity of the...
[August 22, 2006, 19:13]
Protect your privacy when searching online
News AOL's publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users should reinforce an important point: What you type in online may not be as private as you think. AOL Search is a unique case.
[August 10, 2006, 16:50]
AOL previews version 8.0
News Separately, AOL unveiled a new version of its Web search engine that is powered by Google. AOL Search, as it is called, will also incorporate results drawing from the keyword system in AOL's proprietary online service.
[July 31, 2002, 14:50]
Google rues $1bn AOL investment
News The December 2005 deal secured a renewal of Google's search-advertising deal with AOL, preventing its largest ad partner from defecting to Microsoft. Google acknowledged late on Thursday that it may have made a bad bet on AOL.
[August 8, 2008, 8:43]
Search history gives insight into lives of AOL users
News AOL's publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users has yielded more than just one of the year's bigger privacy scandals. Learning to be single is a common theme among the lonely souls hoping to find relationship advice...
[August 8, 2006, 9:50]
AOL sorry for search data 'screw-up'
News AOL apologised on Monday for releasing search log data on subscribers that had been intended for use with the company's newly launched research site. Beitzel, who is an affiliated researcher with the university's Information Retrieval Lab, once...
[August 8, 2006, 9:00]
AOL axes staff over privacy breach
News Two AOL employees have been fired, and its chief technology officer is resigning, after the release of Web search data from thousands of AOL members prompted widespread criticism of the company. In a separate email to AOL employees, Miller said the...
[August 22, 2006, 8:40]
Excite buys WebCrawler from AOL
News Excite continues its attempts to dominate the busy search engine market by paying $12.3 million for AOL'sWebcrawler Internet directory. Under the terms of the deal Excite will also become the main search tool on AOL's online service.
[November 26, 1996, 10:14]
AOL and Google extend European alliance
News Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers here in the UK, as well as those in France and Germany will receive targeted advertising from Google related to their search request. Google has already been providing Web search results for all...
[October 20, 2004, 9:45]
Confused Microsoft?
Talkback We were led to believe that the principal reason Microsoft wanted Yahoo was for their search technology, well, AOL doesn't have any search technology, they get their search results from Google, so not exactly an alternative.
[July 18, 2008, 10:01]
AOL blunder sparks calls for new laws
News AOL's recent privacy gaffe that exposed users' search histories may breathe new life into a proposal to slap strict rules on what data Internet companies may collect. Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said on Wednesday that AOL's...
[August 10, 2006, 9:30]
AOL signs up Google
News AOL said its deal with Google would provide pay-for-placement search results for its AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape Communications properties starting this summer. Its contract to provide search services for the AOL and CompuServe services...
[May 1, 2002, 15:49]
Billionaire seeks to derail AOL-Google deal
News Microsoft had been wooing Time Warner to get AOL's search business for many months and was on the verge of a deal before the surprise turn late last week, according to another person familiar with the negotiations who asked to remain anonymous.
[December 20, 2005, 9:25]
Google sinks $1bn into AOL
News Under the new global advertising partnership, AOL will be able to sell all types of ads, including search, banner and display, across Google's network, which includes Google's own Web sites and the publisher sites that display Google-powered ads...
[December 21, 2005, 7:55]
Yahoo joins three-way scrap for AOL
News The prize: AOL's millions of search and portal users and the related $380m (£216m) in ad revenue that now goes Google's way. Yahoo reportedly has left the sidelines and entered the struggle with rivals Google and Microsoft for a piece of AOL.
[October 17, 2005, 9:50]
AOL extends Google pact indefinitely
News In 2002, Google replaced Overture Services, currently in the process of being acquired by rival Yahoo, as the exclusive provider of paid links on AOL's search pages. Under the companies' current arrangement, Google pays AOL every time someone...
[October 8, 2003, 13:00]
Google tipped to buy AOL stake
News Google had 48 percent search market share in October, compared with 22 percent for Yahoo, 11 percent for Microsoft's MSN and 7.2 percent for AOL, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. As part of the current negotiations with Google, AOL would be able to...
[December 19, 2005, 9:20]
