An interesting piece today about how AOL's news search launched in June is now the second largest news search site on the Web with some 16 million unique montly visitors.

This news shows that there is great life and lift for Time Warner with their AOL assets. Time Warner can really make waves if they can somehow forego their huge dial-up revenue and port such users over to AOL.com for email (without having to use the different AIM email address). By taking such a risk I believe AOL.com would significantly increase its advertising and keyword search revenue. In the long run this is where the money is and not with the dial up revenue that they are trying to hold onto at AOL. The dial up business is going to show continuous declines. Rather than watch this revenue dwindle, Time Warner should do something brave and bold.