Where does AOL get listings

other than inktomi

[miles]

I know that AOL gets is info from Inktomi. My question is does AOL get its listings from Inktomi solely or does AOL have another source. Thanks in advance.

[tedster]

AOL definitely uses ODP and Inktomi, but that doesn't seem to be the whole story. There have been several threads here about the mysteries of AOL Search -- but no cut and dried answers, I'm afraid.

This one [webmasterworld.com] is a good place to start. If this conversation whets your appetite, you can find more by using the "site search" function up at the top of this page.

[miles]

Tedster thank you for your response. I was wondering are there any other threads on this matter that I can read.

[tedster]

[webmasterworld.com...]

This was the first thread I remember where forumites started comparing notes on AOL ranking.

[Brett_Tabke]

AOL also uses goto.

[stcrim]

And, if you are getting a piece of that GOTO traffic, you know it is very good. (To qualify: we have 5,000 KWs bid on in GOTO and the ones that fall in the top 3 slots deliver extremely good traffic from the AOL partnership...

With caution, it's worth investigating

-s-