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"Verizon has bought a significant portion of traffic on the web for roughly 8 billion"

Isn't AOL's traffic a small fraction of Yahoo's?

Yes, but AOL has a bunch of subsidiaries ranging from Huffington Post to TechCrunch.

I was including them.

Yeah, there's a huge difference in traffic between the two websites.

Its all of AOL including subsidiaries such as the Huffington Post