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AOL - Search Engine and Portal

America Online, Inc., began in 1985 as a limited online service for the relatively small market of personal-computer users. Today membership of AOL is over 34 million worldwide, plus 3 million with Compuserve, 120 million with ICQ and 48 million registered users of Netscape.com. AOL International provides services in 17 countries and eight languages.

AOL's stable of services includes:

MapQuest (www.mapquest.com), the web's leading mapping and navigation service;

ICQ ("I Seek You") (www.icq.com), the successor of Mirabilis, the Israeli designed peer-to-peer communication channel for web users;

Moviefone (www.moviefone.com) the film guide and ticketing service launched originally as a phone line in 1989, then as a web site in 1995, purchased by AOL in 1999;

Winamp, (www.winamp.com) the customised digital music portal and Spinner, the internet radio stations, plus Instant Messenger the real-time messenging service and Digital City, the local community network.

AOL.com latest news:
http://media.aoltimewarner.com / media / cb_press.cfm

UPDATE
August 2002, AOL SWITCHES FROM INKTOMI TO GOOGLE
Industry experts believe the switch has led to search improvements for AOL users and may stop AOL "deserters" from using Google instead of AOL's own search facility.

More info:http://www.pandia.com / sw-2002 / 26-aol.html

This article was first published on 02 May 2003 and does not necessarily match current events or the current opinions and views of bigmouthmedia ltd.