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US Report: AOL 4.0 assimilates the Net
News Nasdaq:YHOO), Excite (Nasdaq:XCIT) and Infoseek (Nasdaq:SEEK). For a long time, the distinction was valid: AOL (NYSE:AOL) was, and remains, a proprietary online service that happens to also offer access to the Internet.
[September 29, 1998, 11:45]
The Day Ahead: Dissecting the Primedia-About deal
News Disney and Infoseek was tough, NBCI's collection of mediocre properties never panned out, and AOL and Time Warner is a work in progress. When combined, the latest marriage between old media and new media will create the king of all niches.
[October 31, 2000, 13:21]
Open letter to Steve Case
News Patrick Naughton, Executive Vice President of Products Infoseek We are sure you are aware of the issue regarding interoperability between the instant messaging services of AOL and other vendors and of AOL's efforts to block instant messaging...
[July 30, 1999, 14:50]
US Report: McAfee Online - next-generation portal?
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos started off as popular search engines, McAfee Online started off hawking PC-management software, including a popular anti-virus line. Like Yahoo! and Excite, Network Associates -- McAfee Online's parent company -- has...
[December 9, 1998, 10:05]
The trial of Patrick Naughton
News Today he is facing up to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child sex charges. ZDNet US reporter Lisa Bowman, who was in court for the trial, takes an in-depth look at the Naughton case. See also Naughton: The American dream turned sour...
[March 21, 2000, 9:40]
A Year Ago: Naughton jury still in deliberations
News Infoseek exec trial fails to reach a verdict The jury in the trial of Patrick Naughton has failed to reach a verdict so far and will try again Tuesday. The panel has been deliberating since Friday afternoon on charges Naughton travelled across...
[December 14, 2000, 6:02]
US Report: Netscape beefs up Netcenter search
News Netscape has signed agreements with search services Lycos, Infoseek, LookSmart and Digital's AltaVista. The deals follow Netscape's deal with Excite which calls for the search engine company to pay about $70m (£42.70m) to be featured on Netscape's...
[May 22, 1998, 6:00]
Naughton jury still in deliberations
News The jury in the trial of Patrick Naughton has failed to reach a verdict so far and will try again Tuesday. The panel has been deliberating since Friday afternoon on charges Naughton travelled across state lines to have sex with a young girl and...
[December 14, 1999, 14:01]
AltaVista's next move in portal wars
News Excite, Lycos, Infoseek and Snap.com began offering conventional ISP service several months ago, but that's not the only area where AltaVista is playing catch-up. The multi-featured portal site, which is in the midst of a rush to introduce new...
[July 16, 1999, 10:08]
US Report: Compaq beefs up AltaVista
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos began moving toward a "portal" business model -- incorporating such features as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion boards and news feeds into a full-featured online service -- AltaVista has been searching for direction.
[October 14, 1998, 12:06]
Two new UK ways to search the Net
News On the other hand, Infoseek UK, Excite UK and Lycos UK have gone from global to regional and the purity of their databases isn't 100 per cent. Steljes' searchUK, a locally developed product, claims over 95 per cent coverage of all UK domains.
[February 9, 1998, 15:09]
Lycos ‘ripe acquisition opportunity' - analyst
News Infoseek Corp. Lycos said the latest numbers from Media Metrix shows its reach -- a measurement of how many visitors a particular site gets -- has jumped 15.4 percent since November, and now nearly equals that of top-ranked Yahoo Inc.
[January 21, 1999, 12:32]
THE DAY AHEAD: Why Yahoo! doesn't need a megamerger
News Infoseek went with Disney content. made its best case for staying independent with strong fourth quarter results. But that didn't stop officials from spending most of the company's conference call deflecting questions about AOL Time Warner and...
[January 12, 2000, 11:56]
US Report: Tech stocks hammered in massive selloff
News Infoseek dropped 2 1/8 to 22 1/2 and Netscape sank 1 7/16 to 20 7/16. Wall Street started the fourth quarter with a selling spree Thursday as investors were dismayed by more troubling economic news abroad.
[October 2, 1998, 9:20]
Net search-and-present tool threatens giants
News Infoseek Corp.and other current search services, but in small numbers, said Showcase organizer and industry newsletter writer David Coursey. A new venture unveiled at Internet Showcase Jan.in San Diego intends to begin stealing eyeballs away from...
[January 30, 1998, 9:50]
Microsoft buys into banner adverts
News LinkExchange's current features have already been integrated into Microsoft's MSN Web service, which competes with Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Infoseek, Netscape Communications's Netcenter and others. Microsoft followed the lead of Excite and Yahoo when...
[November 6, 1998, 15:00]
US Report: Netscape, Yahoo! to divorce
News Instead, those participating as "Premier Providers" in Netscape's Net Search program - which commences June 1 - are AltaVista, Infoseek, LookSmart and Lycos. official said the leading Web navigation guide is ending all marketing and traffic-sharing...
[May 26, 1998, 6:45]
AOL-Novell: One giant leap for NDS?
News Infoseek Corp. Unlike operating system rival Microsoft Corp. Novell did not have an instant messaging offering. As a result of the AOL deal signed on Wednesday, it does now. And the company has big plans for integrating AOL Instant Messenger with...
[August 13, 1999, 12:08]
US Report: Netscape's Netcenter fails to impress
News Excite, Infoseek and Lycos, which have built themselves into multi-featured Internet services, attracting the interest of users - and Wall Street - in the process. While observers said none of the new components were a surprise, Netscape's strategy...
[June 2, 1998, 9:33]
