Marcia - 5:32 am on Jun 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm not so sure it's a matter of how or what Google was or is doing, especially lately. For several years, on both those sites (as well as some other indications I've seen over time) there's been an unusually high proportion of mail and/or orders that have come from AOL mail, indicating a high percentage of AOL users with a high interest level in those markets.

It's more a matter of demographics, if we can possibly classify groups of people as "AOL types."