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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi's Free Add URL Penalty Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. Relax, it's not as bad as it sounds, though disclosure of this change, made in the middle of last year, would have saved us some confusion... |
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
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
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Opens Paid Inclusion After months of talking about it, AltaVista finally unveiled a paid inclusion program last week... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Expands Inclusion Partners In conjunction with last month's Search Engine Strategies conference, Inktomi announced a number of new partners who are reselling its paid inclusion programs... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
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
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
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. |
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
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
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go Gains Paid Inclusion System Go.com has become the second major crawler-based search engine to roll out a paid inclusion program. Its new US $199 "Premium Service" will add any URL submitted to its crawler-based results within 48 hours and revisit that URL on a weekly basis, for one year. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
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
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... |
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, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart To Buy WiseNut LookSmart announced last month its intention to purchase the WiseNut search engine, which it hopes will turn LookSmart into an all-in-one solution for portals, internet service providers and others who need a search solution... |
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, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Extends Credits LookSmart is extending the period of credit given to those who failed to activate LookListings Small Business accounts. |
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
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
European Search Engine News Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. |
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
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
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. |
ONLINE
July 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
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
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Network Solutions Launches Inktomi Paid Inclusion Network Solutions was Inktomi's first paid inclusion partner, announced way back in the middle of last year. Finally, that partnership has gone live, with Network Solutions now offering guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi web index through its web site... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Improved MSN Search Launches Microsoft officially launched its new version of MSN Search in late September, and the improvements leapfrog the service forward into being a compelling choice for those searching the web. |
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... |
InternetNews
December 26, 2003
Sean Michael Kerner |
Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change its Ways Jupiter Research looks at the market outlook for the paid inclusion search model, and finds plenty that needs fixing before growth returns to the sector. |
Information Today
June 5, 2000
Barbara Quint |
Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It ... LookSmart announced that the company had signed an exclusive agreement with Gale Group, a leading full-text aggregator. However, information professionals may find the quantity of material actually delivered through the service to be, at least initially, a lot less than the press release leads one to believe. |
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... |
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
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. |
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
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
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... |
