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Yahoo! tests new search layout

...Rashtchy's speculated that the new layout signals a major expansion in paid search listings across Yahoo!'s global network of sites, and that Overture... Read more

5 February, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Google doesn't worry us, says Factiva chief

Free search can't provide everything that users need, says the provider of news archives Read more

2 July, 2004 by Angus Kidman

Google announces new ad programme

Advertisers will be allowed to place ads on Google's partner sites as part of an extension of the popular search engine's AdWords programme Read more

5 March, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Yahoo! adopts paid search listings

The portal has teamed up with Overture to boost revenue by adding sponsored links to its directory Read more

14 November, 2001 by Stefanie Olsen

Yahoo shares fall despite profits increase

...get a cut of revenue every time customers click on Overture's paid search listings. Executives consider TAC revenue less illustrative of Yahoo's true... Read more

8 July, 2004 by Jim Hu

Yahoo chief floats ad-free future

...amassed millions of subscribers since 2001. The company has also profited from paid search listings through its acquisition of Overture Services. Yahoo in 2003 generated... Read more

26 February, 2004 by Jim Hu

Portals in space

In 1998, Joe Firmage took the risky step of disclosing a visionary experience that convinced him of a connection between the world's religions, high-tech advances and visitors from outer space Read more

29 July, 2003 by Paul Festa

Altnet to pay Kazaa users for file-swapping

...But Altnet's initial manifestations turned out to look more like the paid search listings found on many portals such as Overture. Companies who paid... Read more

2 June, 2003 by John Borland

Paid search boosts Yahoo revenue

...revenue grew out of its partnership with Overture Services, a provider of paid search listings, the Web portal disclosed in a securities filing on Thursday... Read more

16 May, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Internet search rings in the changes

As search technology develops, more sites are offering selections driven by automated rather than human decisions Read more

24 March, 2003 by Jim Hu and Stefanie Olsen

Web search for cash brings results

...advertising market in 2002. Ryan outlined his vision for coming improvements to paid search listings, a market his company pioneered, and to the science of... Read more

6 March, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Overture to buy AltaVista

...results to rival those of Internet darling Google. Overture currently enhances its paid-search listings with algorithmic search results from Inktomi -- listings it calls "backfill... Read more

19 February, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Overture raises ad fees in UK

Overture Services has doubled its minimum bid price for paid search listings in the UK, and now US marketers are bracing for... Read more

6 February, 2003 by Stefanie Olsen

Yahoo! hopes to score with World Cup site

...of playing favorites. That means doing deals exclusively with companies such as paid-search listings service Overture Services and online travel site Travelocity.com to... Read more

1 June, 2002 by Jim Hu

Pay-to-play search ignites trademark battle

...services that sell search listings. For such services, the stakes are high. Paid search listings have belatedly been recognised as a killer advertising category on... Read more

11 February, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

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