AOL Launches Next-Generation 'ClassifiedPlus' for Buying, Selling and Trading Online.DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999-- Enables AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Members to Browse Millions of Listings in Such Categories As Jobs, Vehicles, Real Estate, and Personals Classifieds Content from REALTOR.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , HomeBuilder.com, SpringStreet.com, Apartment Guide, Rent Net and AutoConnect ClassifiedPlus also available on AOL, AOL.COM, Netscape Netcenter, Digital City and soon CompuServe 2000, Providing Powerful Reach for Advertisers and Listings Partners America Online See AOL. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), the world's leading interactive services company, today launched ClassifiedPlus, its next-generation classified advertising area that will become the best place to buy, sell and trade online. ClassifiedPlus, now available across America Online, AOL.COM, Digital City and Netscape Netcenter, will enable AOL's more than 17 million members, as well as the more than 41 million monthly visitors to AOL's Web-based brands, to browse millions of listings in 10 major categories including jobs, vehicles, real estate, computers, personals and auctions. In addition to the 10 major consumer listing categories, ClassifiedPlus will offer classifieds content from REALTOR.COM, CommercialSource.com, HomeBuilder.com, SpringStreet.com, Apartment Guide, AutoConnect, Rent Net, Net-temps, Techies.com, Jobs.com & Webhire, and access to eBay. All content can be searched by location. ClassifiedPlus, which represents a broad upgrade of the existing AOL Classifieds area, will put ads posted on ClassifiedPlus in front of millions of additional potential buyers, making ClassifiedPlus a powerful -- and lower-cost -- alternative to traditional newspaper classifieds. Barry Schuler Barry Martin Schuler (born September 7, 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is American Internet pioneer, perhaps best known for making the Internet easy to use consumers while working for America Online for seven years, and being the CEO for three years. , President of AOL Interactive Services, said: "We've designed ClassifiedPlus to take online classified advertising to the next level, blending AOL's hallmark ease-of-use and innovative content with truly unparalleled reach for advertisers. "With classifieds users increasingly seeking a powerful online alternative, ClassifiedPlus is positioned to stake a major claim in this fast-growing market." Mr. Schuler added: "ClassifiedPlus represents just the latest step in our continued efforts to make AOL even more central to the everyday lives of our members. It builds on the growing popularity of person-to-person e-commerce, and gives both current AOL Classifieds customers, as well as novices, every reason to participate in this new way of buying, selling and trading online." The ClassifiedPlus technology incorporates suggestions from current AOL Classifieds members. All content on ClassifiedPlus is browsable by location and can be sorted and re-filtered to customize searches. Photos can be attached to user listings, free Bulletin Boards and biweekly bi·week·ly adj. 1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. n. pl. bi·week·lies A publication issued every two weeks. adv. 1. Every two weeks. newsletters are provided to help build the online ClassifiedPlus community, and a national customer service team is available to help. ClassifiedPlus also offers free personals from Love@AOL, the No. 1 personals site on the Web, and in the future will offer ClassiFetch(TM), which allows users to request that items not available in ClassifiedPlus be "fetched" when they are eventually listed. ClassifiedPlus is available to advertisers at low biweekly, monthly or annual rates, well below most newspaper classifieds fees. Prices will be lower than current AOL Classifieds in most product categories, and AOL members will receive additional discounts on listings. About America Online Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 17 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , AOL Instant Messenger See AIM. and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; the Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. and Communicator browsers; and AOL MovieFone, the nation's No. 1 movie listing guide and ticketing service. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. |
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