AOL looks to outwit Google
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America Online is tapping the vast media assets of parent company Time Warner to outdo rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the search wars.
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Google will unveil communications and productivity software aimed at businesses that will be accessible over the Internet.
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Time Warner Inc.&#39;s America Online Inc. is planning to debut a free search engine for comparing travel deals with the help of Norwalk, Conn.
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A Google Web browser is the latest in the never-ending speculation about what search leader Google Inc. is going to do next after raising $1.
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Could recent deals signal the search engine's intent to eventually rival TV?
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Blog: Nielsen metrics changes benefit AOL over Google by looking at amount of time users spend on a Web site instead of just unique visitors
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Don't bury AOL. It's not dead yet.
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We need a search engine to find all the search engines. Two more Web-query services launched last week, Accoona and Blingo; their initial performance, however, suggests market leaders Google and Yahoo don&#39;t have reason to worry yet.
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Build it (and make it free) and will they come? AOL likes to think so.
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America Online is testing a souped-up, totally redesigned pre-release of its widely visited AOL.com homepage. After lying dormant in the trappings of its classic design scheme, AOL.com has entered the era of high bandwidth. Much like other leading Web portals, users have their pick of news and other content feeds. Lastly, AOL has moved its search engine â powered by Google â front and center along with the most popular AOL.com destinations.
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America Online is aiming to put itself in the vanguard of the Internet travel business. The Sterling, Va., Internet service provider plans to announce today that it will invest in an upstart that threatens
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Microsoft has the software. Yahoo! has the ad revenue. Together they can challenge Google. Among the likely winners: online advertisers.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer  Google and AOL, which have made billions of dollars with text ads linked to search results, are now moving into video advertising, encroaching on lucrative territory dominated for more than half a century by television.
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AOL's roots are in Dulles, but the company wants to bite the Big Apple.
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AOL said Friday it was beginning to beta test a new version of its search product on a limited basis, making enhancements that will benefit those users who have broadband access. The new AOL Search will "go beyond text links."
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Software giant is eager to gain traction in competitive search engine arena.
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(InfoWorld) - With all the huge changes under way in the online media industry, one thing is staying the same: the identities of the companies making money out of the shift, according to the head of AOL LLC. "Amidst all the fragmentation, there's staying power," said Jonathan Miller, chairman and chief executive officer of AOL. He named AOL, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. as companies that are making money by aggregating rich online content such as video, noting that Microsoft Corp. is also making moves into that business. "The big companies will stay big companies," Miller said during a keynote address at the Emerging Technologies Conference on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Cambridge campus Wednesday. Those same companies -- AOL, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- are seeing their own Web sites attracting less traffic than in the past, losing out to the likes of YouTube and MySpace, Miller said. However, he doesn't expect the newer entrants to escape consolidation by the more established players. "I'm a big user of YouTube, but does anyone believe it'll be an independent company in five years? No," he said. All the previous boundaries around entertainment are blurring as consumers become more involved in both the distribution and even creation of online content, Miller said. "This is the Golden Age of entertainment," Miller said. "If you love entertainment, this is the best time ever and it's just at the start." Consumers have much more control over their general viewing habits, choosing where and when they watch the content of their choice. He expects that on-demand viewing for television will become the dominant pattern for users within the next four to five years, with scheduled programming taking a secondary place. "We're becoming a nation of snackers and samplers of all-round media consumption," he added. One area that needs work is video search, a market where AOL already has an offering. "To date, video search has not been as good as text search," Miller said. "In the next few years, it will be as good." One major technological advance that's required is how to give a search engine the ability to look at the pixels of an image and tell people what it is, instead of today's approach of relying on how a video clip is tagged. As to how the "new" AOL is progressing, Miller's estimation is "So far, so good." Last month, the company announced it wouldÂ stop charging for its range of software and services as part of a planned move away from a subscription-based model toward operations supported by advertising sales. "We have a different future," Miller said. "In our past, we got people online, our future is about what they do online. It's a leap." So far, AOL users are continuing to use the company's services at least as much they used to, Miller said. In terms of whether the company has successfully transitioned its business model, the earliest AOL should be able to make a call either way is "realistically the middle of next year," he added. Â