AOL Results Enhanced by Google

[brass monkey]

1) Just wanted to check and make sure that I am reading this correctly. Aol results are "enhanced" by Google, but is this really saying that Aol results are actually the same as Google results. THUS meaning that Aol and Google are partnered.

2) Any ideas on what Yahoo thinks of this??

[agerhart]

AOL uses Google results, but they are not always identical. There are some differences that you will see, for example that AOL allows for multiple pages from one site within a search, while Google has eliminated this to give better results. For many searches you will see some websites have the top 5, top 10, etc., listings.

[savvy1]

It seems that AOL is also doing some filtering based on locality and other factors as well.... at least it seems that way to me

[kneelsit]

Brass-Monkey (btw. is it really that cold where you live:)) as Agerhart says they are Supplementing their results with Google's but allowing anything up to 10 pages from one site to appear in their results page. Hardly encouraging IMO for a searcher to continue using AOL as his/her SE of preference. Think it will mean they will decline even more as a SE of choice.

Pity - really, they used to produce fairly reasonable results for many of my keywords

I personally HATE that sort of result from an SE even when it is my own site that gets the benefit.

Welcome over here also Savvy1. :)

[heini]

>filtering based on locality
Haven't checked in a while how it works at AOL.com, but for european versions AOL filters Google listings for location of hosting, IP filtering.

[bodine]

I can't believe that is normal behavior! I thought it was just an error on that one keyphrase I noticed for one domain to take up 12 of the top 15 results on aolsearch. Now I am reading that this is normal? I can't believe Google allowed this. Heck, I can't believe AOL allows this. It looks as if they have spidered only one domain...GRRR

[redzone]

Bodine,

AOL is the client, not Google... :)

There was a day, when "none" of the SE's clustered results.

AOL has been very slow to make any changes on their results.
They did have the "backfill" from Inktomi on a separate tab for awhile. This was very confusing, and most AOL users weren't even aware the "tab" was "clickable"... They finally dumped that, and went back to their old format.

I'm just thankful that Google supplies the results there, as it's about the only source of "free" traffic left, and I'll gratefully accept what comes from AOL, with open arms.