AOL

AOL or AOL Search, also known as AOL NetFind, the internet is supported by a corporation America Online. A network of web-sites of AOL on the estimations of MediaMetrix is one of three visited places in Internet. It does AOL Search very important for the web of masters. A plus to it the search of subscribers of AOL uses AOL Search by default.

In 1997 a corporation America Online, that engages in the production of software the internet of servers, started the own searching server under the name AOL NetFind. At that time AOL NetFind used a searching machine and principles of search of Excite. 

In the middle of 1999 America Online will be began to use the searching machine of Inktomi, as supplier of results of search. Later AOL declared the use of new searching server of AOL Search. Now AOL uses different technologies in an order to promote релевантность results of search.

Now the results of search undertake from the searching machines of ODP and Inktomi, thus, AOL is a hybrid of the searching system and internet of catalogue.

There is information on the pages of help of AOL, that their searching server conducts a search more than for 150 million pages. But this number already became antiquated, because only the database of Inktomi contains far more index pages. AOL also takes results from ODP, database of that counts more than 2 million pages.

AOL has agreements about partnership in 10 countries of the world. But AOL Search nowhere has the regional separations (except the United States of America, where officially registered).

AOL it is a very large portal that gives wide possibilities for an information retrieval. It foremost: a search of e is mail addresses, search on a database "yellow" and "white pages". There is also an area "for children".

Also at a search, on the right of results lists are given out "researches on the topic", that is created in an order to help users more effectively to search information.

Among the business partners of this searching system it is possible to distinguish such companies as GoTo.com (Sponsored links), Open Directory Project (Matching sites and categories), AOL's network of sites (Recommended sites), Inktomi (Matching web pages).

Because AOL uses the databases of ODP and Inktomi, then to get in the results of search of AOL it is needed to get in their database. About that, how to register oneself in them, an user will be able in detail to know in divisions on the web-sites of Inktomi, Open Directory Project. However, it should be noted that AOL organizes delivery of results of search on the own formula.

There is the curious partner program. Because AOL wants, that as many as possible people used their services, both if an user will place on the web-site the banner of AOL and man that went across on this reference becomes their client or 20$ will pay the proprietor of web-site.