This is how Google cautioned investors, in an earnings report last month, about the importance of AOL to its financial performance: "If our relationship with America Online were terminated, not renewed or renegotiated on terms less favorable to us, our business could be adversely affected." So it came as a huge relief to the Mountain View, CA-based search Leviathan to learn on Friday that the chief executive of AOL parent company, Time Warner, Dick Parsons, had made a phone call to Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to say that Microsoft's attempt to woo AOL over to its fledgling search technology was over. AOL is sticking with Google.