AOL Canada revamping web portal by David Paddon, CP via The Star (Jun 28)
AOL Canada has revamped its site to give visitors free access to multimedia and other previously premium content. Notice says that this is for broadband users only.
"Now a standard web browser and a high-speed broadband connection from any service provider will be enough to take full advantage of the revamped aol.ca."
"Wallace [Craig Wallace, President of AOL Canada] said his goal is to move AOL Canada to the No. 2 spot in terms of Canadian visits by the end of this year and to No. 1 by the end of 2006, surpassing Sympatico.msn.ca, a joint venture of Bell Canada and Microsoft."
The new AOL Canada is quite promising. Video and audio are featured on the front page. News page does have Canadian news. Has a daily news poll on whether video lottery terminals should be banned.
However, the search engine is still the old one - doesn't have clustering from Vivisimo or extra aids.
Posted by Gwen at June 28, 2005 03:37 PM