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AOL
Who runs AOL, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web portal alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Yahoo
Measured from AOL’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit AOL01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs AOL
AOL aol.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Wikidata: American web portal and online service provider
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What AOL tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 16 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on AOL’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to AOL
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to AOL, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 02
MSN
collection of Internet sites by Microsoft
Very close - 03
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 04
SAPO – Última Hora e Notícias de Hoje atualizadas ao minuto
Notícias, Atualidade, Nacional, Internacional, Local, Economia, Tecnologia, Opinião, Desporto, Cultura, Lifestyle, Signos, Jornais, Viagens, Mail, etc
Very close - 05
Excite エキサイト
エキサイトは、話題のニュースや人気ブログ、格安プロバイダなどを展開する便利で安心のポータルサイトです。芸能や音楽、料理や育児の情報も幅広く発信しています。
Very close - 06
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 07
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 08
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
Very close - 09
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 10
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 11
Rediff.com: News | Rediffmail | Stock Quotes | Rediff Gurus
✔Read Latest India News ✔Get Realtime Stock Quotes ✔See Live Cricket Scores ✔Log in to Rediffmail ✔Expert advice on career, personal finance and relationships
Very close - 12
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 13
Web portal
Very close - 14
Onet – Jesteś na bieżąco
Onet: codzienne źródło informacji milionów Polaków - wiadomości z kraju i ze świata 24/7, pogoda, sport, biznes, moto, rozrywka. Bądź na bieżąco z Onet!
Very close - 15
globo.com - Absolutamente tudo sobre notícias, esportes e entretenimento
Últimas notícias do jornalismo, esporte, entretenimento e mais! Na globo.com você acompanha tudo que está acontecendo hoje no Brasil e no mundo.
Very close - 16
Рамблер — медийный портал: новости России и мира, почта, поиск, погода
Рамблер — последние новости сегодня, развлекательные и коммуникационные сервисы: поиск информации в интернете, электронная почта, гороскопы, прогноз погоды, телепрограмма
Very close - 17
Interia - Polska i świat: informacje, sport, gwiazdy.
Interia - czołowy polski portal internetowy. Najlepsze serwisy informacyjne i tematyczne (Wydarzenia, Sport, Motoryzacja, Biznes, GeekWeek, Gry, Kobieta). Bezpłatna poczta e-mail.
Very close - 18
Centrum.cz: Fandíme dobrému obsahu
Centrum.cz je český internetový portál nabízející e-mail, aktuální zpravodajství, počasí a další zajímavé služby.
Very close - 19
Terra - Seu Portal de Notícias, Diversão, Esportes e Vida e Estilo
Acompanhe no Terra as últimas notícias do Brasil e do mundo sobre Entretenimento, Esportes, Tecnologia, Saúde, Horóscopo, Receitas e muito mais
Very close - 20
Infoseek[インフォシーク] - 楽天が運営するニュースサイト
Infoseek(インフォシーク)は、社会、経済、国際、芸能、スポーツ、IT、天気等の最新ニュースを配信しています。楽天ポイントが獲得出来るお小遣いコンテンツ(ポイ活)やお得な情報も充実しています。
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles AOL’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones AOL uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what AOL adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 108 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to AOL’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: n_U5TEjIeZN0_4P4RL5OdjMRHF-fJAyUScHQ2H78sWvfzXU_Lwh-Nw==
- Web servers
- Envoy header server: envoy
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1805.awsdns-33.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: AC51FE4BBA33843E8A3FC86F4B7024F2
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=A8559NR8s5jDgfIOiI89M1Ln_KDohG1F-obiP…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: ko2245Ra2QPRrivJQepBc3qAXmApiF8Wrb1nbWAP_jc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ervjrx9gun9l4uhc6o4d05p65r2824
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- GlobalSign 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on aol.com 9/20
- React 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on aol.com 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on aol.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on aol.com 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on aol.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront 4/20
- Apple Business · not on aol.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on aol.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on aol.com 4/20
- Taboola · not on aol.com 3/20