AOL Pushes Out Improved Search

By Ed Oswald | Published October 5, 2005, 11:52 AM

AOL tweaked its search engine on Wednesday in an effort to make results more relevant, as well as allow for the search of Web sites and multimedia from a single page. Users will also be able to save results in a search, which can be "clipped" to the top of the page for future searches on that term.

In addition, searches can now be made by asking natural-language questions, called "Quick Answers." AOL intends to have the new feature complement its "Snapshots" technology in which results are pre-programmed by editors for common search terms. Answers to these natural-language questions would be placed at the top of the result pages.

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AOL is still in business?

Huh.....never would have known.

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just more AOL junk who cares

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Thirty million subscribers and growing care, rpavi. That's who cares. More sign up every day.

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aol sucks... just loading the page takes 8 seconds. go to hell

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How about all you AOL haters go to hell. =)

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Might want to do some work on your computer. 8 seconds to load is old school. Loads in four seconds for me. Might try a defrag, clear the cache, run spyware check and a few other things and get your system tuned up to get away from that 8 second slow speed.

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And if the use msn search results, it would be the best user experience and search ever

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