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Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal.   |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
June 28, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local interest. |
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
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
May 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture & Inktomi Out, Google In At AOL Google has been selected by AOL to provide editorial search results and paid listings to AOL's various search properties in the United States, including AOL Search, Netscape Search and CompuServe Search.... |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
New Developments In Local Search: Part 1, Moves By Overture Local searching on web-wide search engines can be disappointing. New moves by some major players may improve this. This first of a three-part series looks at local search listings that Overture is testing. |
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 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2004
Janis Mara |
Overture, Wanadoo to Keep Doin' the Do European ISP Wanadoo has re-upped and expanded its paid search agreement with Overture. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has been busy, adding full Boolean searching, redesigning its site, and looking towards a new owner... AltaVista joins AlltheWeb in getting bought out, and by the same company, Overture... Google has been active the past few months, but not with its usual search activities... etc. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Wins Yahoo, What Will Happen With Google? Overture had a major win last month by extending its initial five-month deal to provide paid listings to Yahoo for an additional three years. In addition, Overture's being named Yahoo's exclusive paid listings provider may impact Google's editorial partnership with Yahoo... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date... Answer Services have been popular... AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer... Direct Hit no longer available... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
InternetNews
May 13, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo! We're Not Google! At its Analyst Day, the Internet media company explains why it thinks it can beat Google in the booming paid search market. |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers A look at how and why the current search wars erupted, one that will no doubt gain further attention in the wake of expected public financial releases from Google. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
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
September 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
Search Engine Watch
September 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Shifting To Default Broad Match Within the next few weeks, Overture will make a major switch to matching terms on a broad basis, rather than the traditional exact match default it has followed since the company's launch. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Letter From Australia I was in Sydney last month for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and in this article, I thought I'd share a few things that stood out in my mind as I listened to the various local speakers discuss search engine marketing. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Tightens Belt, Stays Hopeful On Search AltaVista had another round of layoffs in January, losing 200 people, which cuts the company workforce to about 600 total. AltaVista is retaining its search engineering staff and says it fully intends to continue developing its own web wide search product, rather than outsourcing this... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2004
Janis Mara |
Yahoo! Lab to Cook Up New Search Tech Yahoo!'s new research group will help the Internet giant fight for search superiority. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2003
Zachary Rodgers |
Ah-ha.com Adopts New Moniker The paid search listings provider changed its name to Enhance Interactive. The name change was motivated foremost by a gradual change in ah-ha.com's business model. |
Wired
February 2007
Fred Vogelstein |
How Yahoo Blew It Selling ads against search -- it seemed like such a simple thing. But while CEO Terry Semel fumbled and bumbled, Google pulled ahead. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Requiem for Overture Yahoo! is ready to bury the Overture brand, but it can't erase the subsidiary's legacy. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Unusual Power Web Searching Commands These are tools that you may never use or may only try once in a year of searching. But for those who like to dig deeper, who seek the hard-to-find information nuggets, using these commands can help you mine the Internet for information in ways that others will never consider. |
Search Engine Watch
May 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
July 16, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Google's Path to Domination And you may ask yourself, 'how did we get here?' Today's search landscape is a result of Yahoo trying to integrate large acquisitions too fast, while Google focused on core disciplines, small complimentary acquisitions, and smart build-outs. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Ousts Overture At Earthlink, Begins Ad Distribution Google has begun serving up search results to users of the Earthlink web site, taking over a partnership previously held by Overture and marking the first move to distribute its paid AdWords listings outside the Google web 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... |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
The "New" AltaVista With great fanfare, the "new" AltaVista was launched last week. Now owned by CMGI, the revamped service is being firmly targeted as a challenger against more established portals such as Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. |
Search Engine Watch
August 9, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google, Yahoo Settle Patent and Share Disputes Google and Yahoo announced today that they have resolved two contentious issues between the companies. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
