AOL Pushes Out Improved Search

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.