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America Online seeks to retain users as it previews its AOL Search service. Meanwhile, the online giant is poised to hit analysts' forecasts of an additional 900,000 subscribers for the quarter ending September 30.

AOL vies to become major search player update In an effort to turn up the competitive heat on portal leader Yahoo, America Online quietly launches a new Web search engine. AOL's Case pockets $117.1 million in fiscal 1999 America Online chief executive Stephen Case's total compensation falls from $159.3 million in the prior year, as he exercised fewer stock options. AOL confident of growth despite stock slump update America Online says it will meet analysts' profit and subscriber estimates for the fiscal first quarter ending later this month.