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Web search for cash brings results
News Ryan outlined his vision for coming improvements to paid search listings, a market his company pioneered, and to the science of indexing billions of Web documents to produce relevant, noncommercial results -- an area dominated by rival Google and...
[March 6, 2003, 10:00]
Microsoft picks up search-technology firm
News MSN also took out some advertiser links that were served by Yahoo, although it kept its paid-search relationship with the Web portal's Overture Services subsidiary. What the company did say was the acquisition builds on MSN Search's ongoing efforts...
[July 16, 2004, 9:10]
Ask Jeeves expands reach
News Earlier this week, it sought to differentiate itself from Yahoo's new search engine by removing its paid-inclusion service for algorithmic search. Ask Jeeves said on Thursday that it is buying Interactive Search Holdings, owner of several...
[March 4, 2004, 15:40]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News Yahoo, which has profited handsomely from paid search, bought Overture last year for $1.63 billion. Bill Gross, the driving force behind commercial search pioneer Overture Services, is once again going for gold in Web search.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
VeriSign will not revive Site Finder despite patent
News In 2003, VeriSign tried out the Site Finder service, which sent web users who mistyped URLs to a VeriSign page offering search results — including links to paid advertisements. VeriSign has claimed it will not resurrect its URL-typo redirection...
[May 16, 2008, 12:29]
Microsoft gives Live Search a Powerset boost
News In addition to Powerset's ability to help out on the algorithmic side of search, Microsoft also sees potential in using natural-language search to generate more relevant paid search. It will take some time for Microsoft to make full use of the...
[September 18, 2008, 9:38]
Yahoo considers spurning Google for Inktomi
News Yahoo agreed to use Google's search engine for its algorithmic (non-paid) search facility in October 2002, and it has been using the service in conjunction with all of its portals with the exception of a few serving Asian markets.
[August 20, 2003, 13:00]
Google-Yahoo deal gets EC antitrust scrutiny
News By handing Google control of up to 90 percent of paid search and content advertising, Google will exert tremendous power over both newspapers' ability to reach readers and their ability to generate online-advertising revenue," the group, which...
[September 16, 2008, 11:46]
Yahoo makes Overture worth £1bn
News Yahoo officials said the deal made more sense than attempting to separately build holdings comparable to those of Overture, based on that company's standing in the paid-search business and the time required.
[July 14, 2003, 14:29]
Mozilla backtracks on eBay plug-in
News Mozilla leaders previously have said they hoped to collect revenue from the search providers listed on the Firefox search tool, and acknowledged that paid search deals could raise some controversy for the nonprofit.
[November 23, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft and Yahoo agree search deal
News There's a feedback loop in the search business — the more paid ad searches you serve, the more you learn about what people are clicking on," Ballmer said. Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to merge their search technology and advertising operations...
[July 29, 2009, 14:04]
Terra Lycos rekindles HotBot service
News Terra Lycos said on Monday it is relaunching HotBot, combining search results from four engines on a single site. The new HotBot site will allow users to query the FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma search engines on one page.
[December 17, 2002, 10:12]
October Yahoo-AOL deal possible, claims report
News Regulators might not allow the AOL-Google paid-search deal to pass to Yahoo, which would wipe out the other synergies — creating a large risk for both sides. A Yahoo acquisition of AOL could happen during October, TechCrunch reported on Monday...
[October 7, 2008, 9:52]
iWon completes Excite.com takeover
News Under the deal, InfoSpace agreed to power the search and directory portions of Excite while selling or licensing the other parts of the portal to iWon. InfoSpace and iWon split the assets of Excite.com in the Excite@Home bankruptcy proceedings last...
[December 28, 2001, 15:47]
EBay clamps down on use of its name
News Still, the law is unclear about the responsibility of search engines to police trademarks in paid search. Auction giant eBay has moved to block Google advertisers from using its trademark in sponsored search results that appear on Google and across...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
Google seeks ruling on search trademarks
News Still, the law is unclear in the United States about the responsibility of search engines to police trademarks in paid search. Aiming to pre-empt mounting complaints of trademark violations, search company Google has asked a court to rule on...
[December 5, 2003, 8:05]
Yahoo rejects 'absurd' Microsoft-Icahn buyout offer
News That agreement alone is estimated to generate $250m to $450m of incremental cash flow for the first 12 months following implementation, while allowing Yahoo to remain a principal in paid search The buyout proposal called for a "complex...
[July 14, 2008, 11:38]
Yahoo dumps Google as search war intensifies
News Semel on Wednesday said that Yahoo has expanded its deal to offer Overture's paid search results to MSN's sites throughout Europe and Asia, adding to an existing deal throughout the US and the UK. Yahoo on Wednesday said it will drop search partner...
[January 15, 2004, 8:05]
Google's results are no cause for concern
News Total revenue rose 58 percent from the same quarter a year ago to $3.87bn (£1.88bn) on continued strength in its core search advertising business. The search giant disappointed Wall Street on Thursday, missing earnings expectations by three cents...
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
Microsoft unveils free enterprise search
News Search Server 2008 Express will be free to download and use, with no imposed limitations on the number of documents that can be indexed, while the paid-for version of the product — the price is yet to be announced — will allow users to install it...
[November 6, 2007, 13:00]
