Yahoo!’s reach is already enormous: in October, its sites had 158m unique visitors in America, compared with 98m for AOL, according to comScore, a market-research firm.

雅虎的搜索已经非常巨大了：通过市场调查公司comscore公司的数据，在十月份，它的网站在美国已经有158m绝对造访人次，与之对比的是时代华纳 98m的造访人次。

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Aimee Picchi, who writes about business and marketing for AOL's Daily Finance, says studies have shown the ads are quite effective.

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Maybe it's AOL's Steve Case or Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mary Meeker (the "Queen of the Internet").

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That's when AOL's spin-off from Time Warner -- also the parent company of CNN -- was to become official.

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At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.

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