AOL Search

Select your search terms carefully. Use specific, descriptive words instead of general ones. For example, searching for blueberry pancake recipes instead of recipes increases your chances of finding blueberry pancake recipes.

To find an exact phrase, put quote marks around your search terms. For example, use "Charlie and the Chocolate factory" to find content for the movie. You can also use hyphens to connect a phrase such as brother-in-law.

To exclude specific words in your search, type a minus sign (-) in front of the search term. For example, to find content about vegetables with no mention of zucchini, search for vegetables -zucchini. Make sure to include a space before the minus sign (-), but not after.

To find content for two or more topics of equal interest, use OR in between your search words. For example, to find information on either poodles or schnoodles, search for poodles OR schnoodles.

If you don't get any results with search words, try using different words with the same meaning.

You do not have to worry about capitalization when entering search terms. Search does not differentiate between upper-case and lower-case letters.

You do not need to use "and" between words in your search. Search automatically inserts "and" between words separated by a space.

To access this feature, click the Advanced Search link in the upper-right corner of the search main page or any search results page, or go to http://

Using Advanced Search, you can:

• Include or exclude specific words in your search results.
• Include or exclude specific Websites or domains in your search results.
• Search for words anywhere on the page, in the title, text, URL or links.
• Specify language of Websites that you would like to see in your search results.
• Specify how long ago the information has been updated in your search results.

Images search results are images sorted by relevance with images with the highest relevance appear first. These listings are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google™, AOL's search partner. Google considers a number of factors when determining whether an image is relevant to your search request. Because these methods are not entirely foolproof, it's possible some inappropriate pictures may be included among the images you see.

Copyright Restrictions Associated with Images

Images in search results may be protected by copyrights. Although you can locate and access images through our service, we cannot grant you any rights to use them for any purpose other than viewing them on the web. Accordingly, if you would like to use any images you have found through our service, we advise you contact the site owner to obtain the requisite permissions.

Image Search Result in a Frame

This is to show more details of the image. After you click an image thumbnail from the image search results page, you will see more details of the image, including the Web page where the image is originally located. In the top half of the image search result details page, you can see the image thumbnail and the website address. In the bottom half of the page, you can find the Web page where the image is located, in a frame.

Remove a Copyrighted Image that I Don't Want Displayed

Google provides the search results to AOL. To remove a copyrighted image from FullView, please visit the Remove Content page on the Google Website. Here you will fine instructions on what to do or how to contact Google regarding copyrighted images that need to be removed from the search index.

Could Not Find an Image that I Know is Online

You can search millions of images on the Web with AOL. However, there are many more images on the Internet that AOL's partner Google has not yet added to its index. Google is working to crawl more images to increase the quantity and quality of images returned when you search, so it's likely Google will add the image you're looking for in the near future.