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Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Next To Go? Excite@Home may be the next to depart the portal playing field, given the signals it has been sending out recently...   |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
Wired
January 2002
Cory Johnson |
Tools of Self-Destruction What pushed Excite@Home into ruin? Blame it on carelessness -- or something even worse. But don't be confused: It's clear that certain financial decisions made by company board members and executives helped drive Excite@Home to destruction... |
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... |
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
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
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Kills Magellan; WebCrawler Remains Excite@Home's Magellan search service, long abandoned by users and Excite itself, was finally put out of its misery and quietly closed about two months ago... |
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 19, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
NBCi Down, Probably Out The future of the NBCi site as a search resource is now very much in doubt, given the decision by US television network NBC -- which is NBCi's largest shareholder -- to close its spinoff company... |
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... |
PC World
August 22, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
Excite@Home's Money Trouble Won't Disrupt Service Even if firm folds, broadband cable service is poised to continue... |
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
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Submission & Other Changes At NBCi NBCi has rolled out a paid submission service that allows faster review of sites for inclusion into its main directory. In addition, the service, formerly known as Snap, has also made some changes to how sites are listed in its results... |
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
October 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Snap Changes Name to NBCi The Snap site has undergone both a redesign and a name change to NBCi. NBCi is the interactive division of US television network NBC, and it the major owner of Snap. |
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
September 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Roundup Various changes at search engines, such as the new "Most Popular" feature at AOL to a WAP search engine from AltaVista. |
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
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... |
PC World
November 28, 2001 |
Excite@Home Service Could Cease Creditors seek to cut off broadband service pending Excite@Home's acquisition by AT&T... |
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 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. |
Wired
January 2002
Frank Rose |
The $7 Billion Delusion Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in... |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Tim Gray |
Jeeves Heads to Europe Search engine Ask Jeeves announced Friday it has purchased Excite Italia, the operator of Excite Europe, from Tiscali. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Feb. 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items about new info tool Octopus, Inktomi's web size measurement, Excite enlarging its index and free internet access at AltaVista and Excite. |
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
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
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... |
ONLINE
November 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Options for customizing or personalizing the search forms seems to be the new change of the month... AltaVista has made several significant changes in the past several months... Deja.com has lost much of its older Usenet archives... Excite has modified its results display... etc. |
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... |
PC World
December 3, 2001
Tom Spring |
Severed Broadband Customers Cry Foul Customers aren't happy about being cut off in Excite@Home outage, but AT&T claims service... |
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
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
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
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. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2004
Janis Mara |
LookSmart Beats Street, But Lowers 2004 Guidance The struggling search listings provider said it will have a yearly loss worse than expected in 2004. |
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
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 |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Excite@Home To Sell Domain Portfolio The holding company put in charge of the remains of Excite@Home is selling its 119 domain names to the highest bidder. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has made several significant changes... AltaVista has several undocumented proximity and order operators available on its advanced search... Excite is undergoing a major transition... Google has been busy in recent months introducing several new features... etc. |
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... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2005 |
Adopt-An-Author Adopt-An-Author is a free, Webbased, nationwide non-profit program designed to excite students about reading and writing through the use of best-selling thrillers, heroic nonfiction stories, and motivational books chosen by the site because they are fun and interesting. |
ONLINE
July 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Altavista integrates OpenDirectory and Looksmart; Excites launches Photo Search; Google adds new directory, several new features; Inktomi extracts 5x10^6 record GEN3 database; etc. |
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
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
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... |
