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Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Expands To AOL, Netscape Paid listings from GoTo are now appearing at Netscape and will soon appear at AOL Search.   |
Search Engine Watch
March 9, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go.com Becomes GoTo The Go.com web site has switched over to providing search results from paid listings service GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Latest To Carry GoTo Paid Listings AltaVista has become the latest in a string of search engines to carry paid listings provided by GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Redevelops, Reaches Out In addition to rolling out major changes to its site, GoTo has also been establishing new deals to distribute its results through other sites. The moves are designed to take GoTo from being only a paid placement search engine to a source of paid listings that powers other search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Search Redesigns AOL Search is sporting a new look designed to improve how its users interact with the service... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Increases Prices, Appears At iWon The days of 1 cent clicks at GoTo's US service are gone, made extinct by a price increase put into place on March 1, which raised the minimum bid to 5 cents. GoTo advertisers learned of the changes in an email sent to them on the day the price changes took effect... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Makes Overture To New Name Goodbye GoTo; Hello Overture. That's to be the new name for GoTo, come October 8... |
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
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side? The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as Star Wars, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow? |
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... |
InternetNews
October 11, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
AOL Sells UK Unit Time Warner has sold AOL's UK Internet unit in a $688 million cash deal with UK ISP Carphone Warehouse. |
Search Engine Watch
July 17, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies... |
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
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing Finally Getting Respect To some degree, search engine marketing has been like the Rodney Dangerfield of online advertising -- it's gotten no respect. The positive financial performance of GoTo is making people take notice, though all the signs have been there for ages... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
NBCi Switches To GoTo Search results at NBCi now come from that favorite of the failing portals, GoTo... |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Switches To Inktomi AOL Search has switched over to Inktomi results for its main listings, relegating the Open Directory's presence to having category-only links appearing at the bottom of the page... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Moves Fully To Google AOL Search changed to being fully Google-powered last week, completing a transition that was announced in May. Now both paid listings and crawler-based editorial results come from Google. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
AOL Mum on Possible UK Unit Sale AOL's Europe exit is part of the company's plan to shed it's ISP roots, say analysts. |
Search Engine Watch
October 8, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
AOL Renews With Google AOL has renewed its agreement with Google for search results in a new multiyear deal. |
Search Engine Watch
December 18, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Launches In Europe Lycos Europe has quietly launched its new HotBot UK, France and German sites this month... |
InternetNews
October 7, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
AOL Recasts Privacy Policy The ISP is about to complete its first policy revision since 1998. Under its new rules, AOL will no longer rent or sell mailing lists to retailers. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Searching The AOL Time Warner Way Netscape Search used to be a powerhouse in the search world. Those heady days have declined, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser now commands the lion share of web users. However, Netscape Search has a new lease on life, via the AOL Time Warner network... |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Speaks Out On FTC Complaint At last month's Online Advertising Forum, GoTo's CEO Ted Meisel fired back at the complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission over paid listings on some search engines. His comments were both right and wrong on many points... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Gets Search Refinement Feature, Paid Listings Coming Excite's new "Zoom In" search refinement feature debuted on the site last month, and the service will be gaining paid listings later this month... |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
Entrepreneur
November 2001
Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
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? |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2006
Mark & Carlson |
AOL to Cut 5,000 Jobs AOL said it plans to cut 26 percent of its workforce over the next six months. |
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... |
InternetNews
September 3, 2010 |
Google, AOL Extend Search Agreement Under renewed agreement, Google will provide AOL's search and advertising technology for five more years, with an expansion into mobile and video content. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
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
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... |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
AOL Googles for Ad Dollars The Internet service continues to aim for increased ad revenue opportunities. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
New AOL Search Unveiled AOL retired its longstanding AOL NetFind service in favor of the new AOL Search in September, though the official launch of AOL Search actually comes later this week. |
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 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
May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Subtle But Helpful Changes At HotBot Unlike at Lycos.com, Lycos-owned HotBot has no dramatic search provider announcements. HotBot says that it is pleased with its current major providers, Direct Hit and Inktomi, plus says that having a different mix helps the site appeal to a different audience than those using Lycos.com. |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2005
Chris Sherman Gary Price |
AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now AOL is rolling out several enhancements to its core search functionality that position it as a clear contender in the battle for eyeballs between Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. |
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... |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Chris Sherman |
Consumer Watchdog Files Complaint Against Eight Search Engines for 'Crass Commercialism' Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against eight Web search engines "for placing ads in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads"... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 31, 2006
Timothy J. Mullaney |
AOL: For Once, A Smart Shopper Time Warner is expected to announce a plan to tie AOL's fate even more tightly to advertising, phasing out $2 billion a year in already-shriveling subscription revenue. Such a radical move would be unthinkable without Ad.com, which provides almost 20% of AOL's ad revenue. |
InternetNews
August 12, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
AOL Targets Internet Holdouts The ISP will offer a PC, peripherals and Internet access package to U.S. households that are still offline. |
InternetNews
April 29, 2004
Janis Mara |
AOL News Not All Bad The ailing online giant reports member losses and flat income, but also a rise in operating income. |
InternetNews
July 6, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
AOL For Free? AOL is reportedly considering offering its online services for free to some of its users. |
