AOL: Search Marketplace

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Mon 14 Sep 2009

A Look Back At The Old Search Engines

Posted by Admin under AOL: Search Marketplace, Ask: Web Search, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Live Search, Search Engines: Lycos, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Yahoo: Search

The Six Revisions blog complied an excellent list of the classic search engines, some dating back to the 1990s. His list includes screen shots of both the old and current (if available) versions of HotBot, Excite, WebCrawler, Ask Jeeves, Ask.com, Yahoo, Google, Dogpile, AltaVista, Lycos, MSN Search, Bing, AOL Search, Infoseek, Go.com, Netscape, MetaCrawler, [...]

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Mon 20 Jul 2009

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: “The Model Is Disney”

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, AOL: Search Marketplace, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info

It’s been roughly 100 days since Tim Armstrong was named CEO of AOL in anticipation of a spin-off/IPO of the company from corporate parent TimeWarner later this year. There are a slew of interviews out this morning in which Armstrong assesses his first 100 days, the state of the business and gives some indications of [...]

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Wed 10 Dec 2008

AOL Debuts Bebo “Social Inbox”

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: Search Marketplace, Latest Info, Search Engines: Social Search Engines

AOL is repositioning or perhaps enhancing Bebo as a kind of dashboard for the internet using the concept of a “social inbox.” The Wall Street Journal has coverage of what’s at stake for AOL and the challenges facing social media ad revenues. The social inbox idea is about…