AOL News second only to Yahoo! News in popularity
AOL News, which uses a combination of Google News results, Topix.net information and human editing, is now more popular than both of its sources. AOL boasts a unique audience of 16.5 million according to a Nielson//Netratings report for July. Only Yahoo News is still more popular.
AOL News as relaunched in June along with the release of the new AOL.com portal.