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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... |
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 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 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. |
Search Engine Watch July 5, 2000 |
Good For Google Does Not Equal Bad For Inktomi The loss of big portal Yahoo to Google's search service doesn't necessarily mean Inktomi is a big loser, just because Google is a big winner. |
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 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 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. |
Search Engine Watch May 14, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Return To The Sad Days Of More Than A Search Engine? Yahoo says it is "more than a search engine" in the same week Google adds a new portal feature. Are the sad days of search being a neglected child about to return? |
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 July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo? |
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 April 5, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
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 22, 2004 Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch March 16, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. |
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. |
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 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 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 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. |
InternetNews March 21, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Google Finance Sparks Portal Talk After launching Google Finance, is the company closer to becoming a portal? Does Wall Street care? |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
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. |
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 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 |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Fights Back Yahoo! isn't taking Google's quest for world domination lying down. The company appears to be gunning for Google's prime AdSense service juggernaut. |
Search Engine Watch January 13, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
Search Engine Watch March 21, 2006 Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Google Finance For years, those seeking specialty financial information via Google have been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN. Now Google's providing financial information directly to its own users. |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch July 6, 1999 |
Netscape Search Gets Rebuilt Netscape released a new version of its Netscape Search service in June. Previously powered by Excite, the new service now draws on the Open Directory and Google for its listings. It's a powerful combination that makes Netscape Search worth considering among your top search choices. |
The Motley Fool April 6, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Dueling Fools: Yahoo! Bull For a giant, Yahoo!'s moves are awfully stealthy. And that's its secret. The company's faithful investors may well get the last laugh. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Lying Again? Is Google spurning Yahoo!'s business? Don't believe it. |
The Motley Fool August 23, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
It Takes an iVillage Yahoo! lands a major content distributor in its marketing battle against Google. |
Search Engine Watch May 14, 2008 Kevin Ryan |
Google's Superiority Complex In the end, is Google's search advertising system better than Yahoo's, or are they just monetizing better? It sounds like a little bit of both, but we shouldn't count Yahoo out. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2010 Jijo Jacob |
Has Yahoo! Finally Found the Ideal Search Engine? Yahoo! and Microsoft team up against search giant Google. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Sour Grapes for Google? Is the price right for a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo!? Would Yahoo! give Microsoft an unfair advantage over Google? Will Yahoo! be to Microsoft what AOL was to Time Warner? These questions are discussed in this video. |
InternetNews May 22, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Stats Say Google Losing Something Google increased its search dominance in April, but remains well behind Yahoo's news, mail, finance and maps service. |
CIO January 15, 2006 Juan Carlos Perez |
Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Does Microsoft Plus Yahoo! Equal Google? Doe Microsoft + Yahoo! = Google? Or does Microsoft + Yahoo! = AOL - Time Warner? These questions are discussed in this video. |
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... |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: The Google Hammer Google has shown that search is big business, and No. 2 Yahoo!, along with Microsoft and IAC/InterActiveCorp, want a bigger piece of that pie. |
InternetNews February 5, 2008 |
Regulators Would Watch Any Google-Yahoo Tie-up Following Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, a separate alliance with Google could be renewed under FTC scrutiny. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: The Future of Yahoo! On the heels of its recent earnings, we ask what the future holds for Yahoo! Investors, take note. |