Dulles, VA - January 20, 2005 - America Online, Inc., the world's
leading interactive services company, announced today new AOL(r)
Search innovations and partnerships to expand its offerings for
AOL(r) subscribers, current and future audiences of AOL's network
of Web properties, including the new AOL.com(r) portal, and
advertisers.
Available today is a new version of AOL Search, as America Online
expands its search services with new technology partners in
addition to Google(tm) core results. On AOL Search, users can find
news, local information, images, audio and video files, and
products all in one place, and it combines results from Google with
relevant AOL(r) content and tools to quickly narrow searches,
helping users find better answers faster than ever before.
Credit Pacific Service Union New enhancements of AOL Search include:
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Credit First Service Union ** An updated design that moves away from a tabbed interface to
provide users with a more directed and personalized search
experience.
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Card Credit Mobile Service ** A new sorting and "clustering" feature that helps users find
exactly what they are looking for more quickly and efficiently. AOL
has licensed clustering technology from Vivisimo, which
automatically organizes relevant search results by topics and
displays them alongside the list of general Web search results.
This approach saves users from having to wade through long lists so
they can zero in on more specific results and find exactly what
they're searching for. AOL Search is the first major search engine
to incorporate clustering technology within its search results.
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Card Credit Discover Service ** An innovative AOL(r) SmartBox(tm) suggestion tool that
automatically presents relevant choices to help
instantly narrow a query even before users press the "Search"
button. The SmartBox tool helps users refine and clarify their
search, increasing the accuracy of their results. For example,
typing in the word "eagles" into the AOL Search query box
presents the opportunity for users
to hone their search to "The Eagles" (the band), "The Philadelphia
Eagles" (football team), or "Eagles" (the bird). AOL Search will
also display a user's most recent searches to save time when they
want to look up the same searches again.
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Credit Public Service Union ** A new layer of results called "Snapshots" appears at the top
of search results and presents editorial content and
relevant information for a wide range of topics from local movie
showtimes and sports stats to current events. Snapshots results,
which draw from AOL's large network of content and Web brands,
include member ratings for local
businesses, restaurants and
other points of interest. Also available are quick tools such as
a calculator, currency converter, "find a flight" from AOL(r)
Travel, and "find a restaurant" from AOL(r) CityGuide. There are
now more than 2.5 million AOL(r) Snapshots programmed packages
provided for as many as 20 percent of all AOL Search queries.
AOL Search integrates locally relevant search results for cities
across the U.S. and draws from AOL's leading local services
including AOL CityGuide, AOL(r) Yellow Pages, and the
MapQuest(r) and Moviefone(r) services.
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Card Credit Processing Service ** Integrated shopping search results provide users with an easy
and convenient way to purchase products they're looking for or to
easily
access Pinpoint(r) Shopping's
database of more than 25 million products where users can also
narrow products by category, brand, price, store name and
merchant rating.
Center Credit Service Union ** As part of America Online's ongoing commitment to ensure
usability of AOL products and services by
people with disabilities, the
new AOL Search offers the ability to adjust font sizes and
improved compatibility with screen reader software used by the
blind.
Card Credit Service Wireless Coming soon, AOL Search will further expand its Local Search
capabilities with a greater diversity of features, based on a new
algorithm, giving users an even more comprehensive and convenient
way to find information where they live, work and travel. America
Online is working with Fast Search & Transfer, Inc. (FAST(tm)),
a leading provider of search technology and solutions, to enhance
its expanded local search services and results customized to users'
geographic locations.
Credit Security Service Union Also announced today, America Online has signed a license
agreement with Copernic for desktop search technology. Under the
agreement, AOL is working with Copernic to deliver integrated
desktop search with AOL Search that will allow users to
conveniently search from one place for information online or files
on their computer hard-drive.
Credit Report Service America Online is also working to provide expanded opportunities
for businesses and advertisers. In addition to its successful
relationship with Google to provide Web search results and
sponsored links for AOL Search, America Online announced today that
it will work with Ingenio, a company that offers a new way for
local merchants to tap the power of Internet
advertising through its Pay Per
Call(tm) Advertising Platform. Ingenio Pay
Per Call offers advertisers -- whether or not they operate a Web
site -- an Internet-based, pay-for-performance system to drive
targeted phone calls, rather than clicks, to their business for
fast and efficient customer acquisition.
Blogspot Com Christian Coming soon, these advertisers - including businesses large and
small, as well as local merchants and service providers - will be
showcased in a sponsored link search results area on AOL Search,
the AOL.com Web site, AOL Yellow Pages and other AOL properties,
providing advertisers exposure to a mass audience of ready-to-buy
customers searching online for local products and services. Ingenio
Pay Per Call advertisers will be charged only after a phone call is
made to their business as a result of the ad. An auction-based,
open bidding approach gives advertisers unique insight into their
local market, allowing them to determine how much a phone lead is
worth to their business at any given time.
Christian Counseling Credit About America Online, Inc.
Credit Federal Service Union America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner
Inc. (NYSE: TWX). Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the
world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet
technologies and e-commerce services.
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