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Comment by firesteelrain

3 years ago

AOL keywords were shortcuts to URLs like bit.ly right?

Not all the time. Many keywords were a shortcut into a curated multimedia portal inside AOL. It could be equivalent to a web site for a brand, but could also be a more general area inside AOL with related articles, chat rooms, etc on that topic. More like opening a magazine than running a web search or typing a URL.