Google and AOL Time Warner subsidiary, America Online have agreed
to offer Google's search engine over all of AOL's Internet
companies.
The companies said that Google's search technology will be used in
the search areas of CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape.
Financial terms for the multiyear agreement between AOL and Google
were not disclosed.
The alliance will improve searching capabilities for AOL users by
granting them access to Google's Internet search engine technology,
while Google will become available to AOL's 34 million members as
well as the tens of millions of visitors to AOL's Web-based
properties.
Google and AOL also signed a marketing agreement, that allows
Google to pitch its targeted paid listings product from its base of
advertisers to AOL users.
The deal comes a day after Overture Services, which handles
advertising for search engines, said its US search distribution
relationship with AOL had ended. AOL users in the US will no longer
receive paid listings provided by Overture's advertisers though its
entries on AOL Europe's portals in the UK, France and Germany will
continue.
Google is closing in on Yahoo! as the world's most popular search
engine.