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GO.com Recasts Portal Strategy
News Walt Disney plans to reposition its GO.com Web portal as an entertainment and leisure destination, in what seems an acknowledgment that the entertainment giant's Web venture is unable to challenge stalwarts like Yahoo!
[January 28, 2000, 9:30]
Google Does Disney Deal
News Google said on Monday it has begun providing Web search results to Walt Disney's Go.com in a deal that will replace one with competitor Overture. In addition to Go, Google will begin powering site-specific results and sponsored links in the...
[March 10, 2003, 15:23]
Disney And Infoseek GO Together 100 Percent
News Disney will put Disney.com, Disney's Club Blast, The Disney Store Online, Disney Travel Online, Disney.com's international sites, Family.com, ABC.com, Oscar.com and ABCSports.com in the Go.com network.
[July 12, 1999, 12:40]
Disney: The Mouse That Won't Roar
News The decision was made voluntarily after the Council of Better Business Bureaus found 12-year-olds could access chat rooms on Disney's Go.com network, where sexually charged chats were frequently reported and children could post their home...
[October 11, 2000, 13:51]
The Day Ahead: Disney Says GO Brand A No-go, You DIG?
News The multichannel campaign will be quite a switch from the days where Go.com had to be mentioned every five seconds on Disney's offline properties. Let's connect the dots here: Disney tries to cash in on Net euphoria with the Go.com tracking stock.
[August 3, 2000, 13:00]
The Day Ahead: Go.com Is Going In The Right Direction
News If anything, Go has enough of Disney's cash to make just about anything work. Analysts said believing in Go.com is easy -- as long as you believe in Disney brands such as ABC.com and ESPN.com. After dabbling with a Go joint venture between Disney...
[May 4, 2000, 12:58]
Infoseek Exec Nabbed In Sex Scandal
News Infoseek, which was acquired by Disney last year, operates the GO Network, consisting of the some of the Web's biggest sites, including ESPN.com, ABCNews.com and Disney Online. Patrick Naughton, 34, an executive vice president of Infoseek and...
[September 20, 1999, 9:16]
Disney: Naughton Not Our Employee
News However, Disney spokeswoman Rebecca Anderson stressed Monday that Naughton asserted no operational control over Disney Online, ESPN, ABCNews.com or ABC.com, despite the fact they are part of the Infoseek-operated GO Network.
[September 21, 1999, 10:14]
Terra Lycos Teams With EBay On Auctions
News Last year, eBay teamed with Walt Disney, first launching a co-branded site with Disney's Go.com portal, then hosting official auctions of Disney memorabilia. The auction giant said recently that it is seeking to renegotiate its deal with Disney...
[June 7, 2001, 9:57]
Adult Content Dispute Causes AltaVista To Close Features
News In October, CARU issued a report reprimanding Walt Disney because children who register on Disney.com can easily visit the company's Go.com Web portal and access adult online chat rooms. But as smaller portals such as AltaVista, Go.com, Excite.com...
[February 15, 2001, 8:50]
Cutbacks Push Dot-coms Toward Profits
News Those cuts came on top of 400 employees shorn last January from Disney's Go.com Web portal. Last week, Walt Disney chairman Michael Eisner offered a prediction that seemed unthinkable a year ago: The company's beleaguered Internet operations will...
[January 9, 2002, 15:03]
Disney Portal Slowly Passsing GO
News or America Online, depending on which numbers you look at -- Weiner points out that GO's traffic gains value in the eyes of advertisers because of Disney's involvement. While the site may continue to hover just outside the top-five in terms of...
[July 22, 1999, 11:55]
Hackers Attack HP, Compaq And Others
News Other victims include AltaVista and Disney's Go.com. A server linked to Support.Intel.com was hacked in the morning of 13 February in the US," Intel Asia spokeswoman Wendy Toh confirmed in an email. Late Wednesday, Attrition.org, an independent...
[February 16, 2001, 9:07]
Portal Wars Are Over -- Guess Who Won?
News Lycos and Disney's GO Network aren't the only prominent losers, according to the Forrester report. MSN.com, Microsoft's portal site, has seen its traffic increase threefold in the past year to come in third with 37.7 million visits.
[December 20, 1999, 8:51]
Portal Woes Kick In
News Also on Monday, Walt Disney made a surprising announcement that it will shut down operations for its Go.com portal and lay off about 400 employees. The company added that it will take a $790m noncash write-off of Go.com's intangible assets and an...
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Dominates
News Yahoo's strong growth will turn up the heat on competitors such as America Online, Excite@Home, Lycos, Microsoft's MSN, NBCI and Disney's Go Network. As for acquisitions, Koogle said Yahoo will go shopping, but only when it boosts the portal's...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
Davis Steps Down As Lycos Chief Exec
News Just this week, Walt Disney announced it would shutter its Go.com Web portal and lay off 400 employees. Much of the company growth was fueled by acquiring smaller-scale Web companies, such as Wired Digital, Quote.com, Sonique, Gamesville and this...
[February 1, 2001, 16:13]
The Day Ahead: Ready, Set, Rollup
News Consider that Disney Internet Group was rolled into Disney for what ABN Amro analyst Arthur Newman described as a "Minnie" premium. Disney paid a 20 percent premium to Disney Internet shareholders only because it was stipulated in an old contract...
[February 9, 2001, 12:08]
The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com Goes Critical
News Drkoop.com also inked an exclusive content pact with Disney's Go.com last April. Go.com also gets Drkoop.com warrants in lieu of cash. Is it just a coincidence that Drkoop.com's lead feature Wednesday morning was 'Facing Grief'?
[April 26, 2000, 12:07]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part V
News In the Disney tradition," Eisner had said in a press release announcing the launch of Go.com, "Go Network will feature an unprecedented degree of content protection for children and families. Indeed, word was even spreading among Infoseek and...
[March 21, 2000, 13:59]
