U.S. has sort after Yahoo! Finance for information about economic conditions, general inflation and stocks. More than 18 Million visitors have accessed Yahoo! Finance in May making it the top financial news and research site.

According to comScore, a Internet research company, Yahoo! Finance topped the category followed by AOL Money & Finance with 15.2 million visitors. This is a 58 percent increase for Yahoo! And 48 percent increase for AOL when compared to their previous year.

Demographic Indicators

The report by comScore also reveals some interesting facts. 46 percent of unique visitors who accessed the financial news and research category were persons above the age of 50.

Also, 40% of the visitors had a house hold income of above $60,000. A large number of visitors have also been from large families with more than 5 people. This report portrays how families who have more financial responsibilities or needs keep themselves updated on today’s economic growth.

The recent site updates have helped AOL increase their site traffic with new traffic records. The sites page views increased a wooping 35 percent and unique visitors more than 11 percent making their total site hits to 56.5 million.

Sites which had a makeover were AOL News, AOL Sports and AOL Money & Finance. AOL Sports had a traffic hit of more than 148 percent.

Bill Wilson, AOL Vertical Programming executive vice president, said “Our strong growth is a direct result of rebuilding each and every one of our vertical Web sites over the past 12 months, with the goal of providing consumers highly relevant and rich experiences that focus on key passion points”.

These traffic increases should hopefully lift AOL from its revenue struggle and the fall in dial-up subscriptions.

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After Yahoo, now it’s AOL which is open for a deal. The Time Warner company America Online acknowledged the weakness in business and is now open for combining AOL with any company which could provide the strongest and the most valuable configuration.

It should be noted that Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey Bewkes had informed in February 2008 that Time Warner would give away AOL’s dying subscription business from the online content and advertising side.

Erick had reported that “this is code for a sale or IPO, or both. Time Warner should sell off the access business to a private equity shop and go full-steam ahead with its IPO plans for Platform A.”

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