The Google search engine was considered technically superior to Yahoo, Excite, Lycos,
Netcenter, AOL.
For example, as Michael Homer, Netscape's executive vice president and
NetCenter general manager, explained in his deposition, "a download may be interrupted, or, even if the download is successful, it still may not be feasible to install the software."(89) Moreover, according to Homer, "...
The term "Web portal" began to be used to describe mega-sites such as Yahoo, Excite, MSN, Netscape
Netcenter, and AOL, because many users used them as a "starting point" or "entry point" for Web surfing.
Under the multiyear agreement, New York-based Citigroup and America Online will build new payment and money-transfer features across AOL, AOL.com, CompuServe, Netscape,
Netcenter, AOLTV and Digital City, and AOL Instant Messenger.
America Online's decision to acquire Netscape, with its popular
Netcenter Web portal, provides strong evidence that the consolidation of this business is well under way.
Creators Syndicate, Copley News Service, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate (LATS) to various AOL entities -- including the AOL subscriber service, AOL.com, Netscape
Netcenter, and CompuServe.
Containing AOL's Netscape
Netcenter and WashingtonPost.com, it controls millions of search queries on its own website and the products arrange reliability packages.
Among these services are Netscape's
Netcenter and AOL.
Building on a series of commercial agreements and announcements made on January 10 at the announcement of the merger agreement between the two companies, America Online Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and Time Warner, the world's leading media company, announced that CNN Interactive will be the premier broadcast news partner for Netscape
Netcenter, a leading Internet service, and for ICQ, the world's largest online communications community.