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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by sp332 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:28AM (#24158378)
Instead of browsing via URL, companies could buy "AOL keywords". A user could just put in a keyword, like "dog food", and AOL would send them to a particular dog food page. In the days before good search engines, this was very convenient even though it was obviously pay-to-play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by pkamb on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:53PM (#24161001)
"Hi, I'm Sheriff Harry S. Truman for America Online"
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