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Search Engine Watch
November 16, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Drops Free Submit For Commercial Categories Yahoo is now charging for all sites that wish to submit to certain commercial categories of its directory...   |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
LookSmart Launches Express Submission Service LookSmart is currently testing a new submission service where by paying a fee, you can get a fast answer as to whether your site will be listed. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Now Charging Annual Listing Fee Yahoo is now requiring that new sites seeking to be listed in its commercial areas pay an annual listing fee of $299, or $600 if they are adult sites. Previously, the fee had been a one-time charge. The change transforms Yahoo from being a web guide to a sort of online yellow pages... |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Ups Basic Submit Price The price of LookSmart's "Basic Submit" service has been increased from $79 to $99. Basic Submit guarantees that a site will be reviewed within eight weeks for possible inclusion into the directory... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Free Listings Gone At LookSmart In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Overhauls Submission Process, Increases Prices The good news is that over the past month, LookSmart has given site owners greater flexibility than ever before to get listed with the service. The changes make getting listed more complicated, but are especially beneficial for those with non-commercial content... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changes To Cost-Per-Click Listings Pay -- and keep paying -- or don't appear, LookSmart told existing and new listing customers last month, in a significant change to how the human-powered search engine lists web pages from commercial web sites... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Monetizing The Search Monetizing the search means making money in some way off the search results you present. More than ever, monetizing the search is a concern for the search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Changing To Cost-Per-Click Basis Next week, LookSmart plans a shift to a model where most new listings in the commercial portions of its directory will be sold a cost-per-click basis... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
Search Engine Watch
February 22, 2007
Greg Jarboe |
Stats Show Google Dominates the International Search Landscape What is the most popular search engine in the UK? In Europe? In the world? |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
Search Engine Watch
February 27, 2008
Greg Jarboe |
Stop Press 2: Hitwise Data Shows Google News UK Unbiased Google News UK is free from both political and commercial influence and answers only to its users. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Cuts Staff But Gains Big Amazon Deal LookSmart cut its staff by nearly one-third last month, but this was due primarily to the continuing refocus at LookSmart on selling listings that are distributed to partners, rather than trying to sell advertising on its own site... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
Excite Enlarging Index, Partnered With LookSmart In August, Excite began the first phase of an ambitious plan to enlarge its search index to 250 million web pages and improve the relevancy of its search results. The search engine also debuted new LookSmart-powered directory listings. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite, NBCi Reduce Workforce Along with other search-oriented services, Excite and NBCi also cut staff in January... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
LookSmart Live Looks-Up Answers Looking for an answer? Look no further than LookSmart, which is providing custom research to frustrated searchers through its new LookSmart Live program. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Expands Paid Placement Listings Yahoo is now carrying paid placement listings on its search results pages, rather than just within its category pages, through a deal cut with Overture (the former GoTo) last month... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letters About LookSmart's Cost-Per-Click Change A sampling of letters received by Search Engine Watch relating to the change by LookSmart to cost-per-click pricing... |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Hit With Potential Class Action Lawsuit Over Submission Program A proposed class action lawsuit claiming breach of contract, fraudulent business practices and misleading advertising has been filed against LookSmart over a recent change in how the company sells some of its commercial web site listings |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Sponsored Listings To Take On Google & Overture LookSmart has relaunched its Sponsored Listings program using a new bid-for-placement model, a move it hopes will let the company win distribution partners from rivals Overture and Google, as well as increase its advertising revenues. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite May Be Out; FAST Has Further Layoffs The future looks dim for Excite@Home, which operates the Excite search engine. The company has creditors calling in their loans, putting it into possible bankruptcy. Meanwhile, FAST Search has had its second round of layoffs this year... |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
July 99 Search Engine Briefs Inktomi has been selected to take over from Excite in powering AOL NetFind and AOL's other search properties, including international versions of AOL NetFind. No changeover date for AOL NetFind has been announced, but Inktomi says the switch is likely to happen later this summer. For the time being, AOL NetFind continues to be powered by Excite. AOL is also apparently testing a new AOL Search service that will integrate results from across the web and from its own content. |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Makes Changes Excite has finished making changes to its search interface, mostly minor alterations that that service hopes will improve usability. Here's what you will find that's different... |
Search Engine Watch
December 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Bolsters Local Search Business Listings Yahoo has quietly expanded its local business listings and rolled out a service that gives businesses control over their listings in Yahoo Local through a new content inclusion program. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Adds Paid Listings Option For Small Businesses A new program from LookSmart has made it possible for small businesses and others with low publicity budgets to get listed within the paid placement area of its search results... |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Excite Changes Look, Results Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system. The simple design mimics the "less is more" move that AltaVista kicked off in May with its Raging Search... |
Information Today
May 6, 2002
Tara Calishain |
Yahoo! Service Offers More Advice Than Expertise First Google started an advice service with Google Answers. Now Yahoo! has stepped into the arena with Yahoo! Advice, which is offered through a partnership with LiveAdvice. Is this a new trend in search engine offerings or just a way for these two companies to generate revenue? |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Acquires Zeal Community Directory LookSmart has purchased the Zeal.com community search site. Similar to the Open Directory, Zeal.com uses volunteer editors to organize web sites into categories. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2004
Pamela Parker |
Yahoo! to Acquire Kelkoo for $579M The European shopping search engine boosts the U.S. portal player's standing in the region. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
Yahoo Changes Listings Significant changes to the look and functionality of Yahoo are few and far between, which can be a relief given how some other search engines can seem to be constantly altering themselves.... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Closes NewsTracker, Search Voyeur Excite is closing its NewsTracker service as of November 15, while its Search Voyeur live display feature closed last month... |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
