The Associated Press (www.ap.org) announced on October 19 that America Online Inc. unit AOL Europe and the search engine giant Google Inc. (www.google.com) have signed a new multi-year agreement that will provide AOL users with targeted advertising from the search engine giant's AdWords advertisers, and will allow Google advertisers to target ads based on AOL members search requests.
Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. America Online has about 6.3 million members in the United Kingdom (www.aol.co.uk), France (www.aol.fr) and Germany (www.aol.de). Google currently provides search capabilities for those customers.