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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
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
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 - 07
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 - 08
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 - 09
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 - 10
American news website
Very close - 11
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 12
Latest News, Breaking News Today, LIVE News, Top News Headlines, India News, Viral Video, Cricket News, Sports News, Entertainment News, Business, Health, Lifestyle News & LIVE Updates| India.com
India.com Breaking News: Live News Updates from across India and the world. India.Com is your gateway to India for latest News, explainers, viral videos, cricket, sports, entertainment, business, health, lifestyle from India and around the world on India.com.
Very close - 13
American journalism company and news website
Very close - 14
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 15
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 16
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 17
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 18
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 19
News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International
News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email
Very close - 20
Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International
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
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 70 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