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LookSmart Loses Its Largest Customer
News Microsoft will not renew a contract to use LookSmart's Web search results on its MSN site, the search-technology provider announced on Monday. The loss of the MSN deal is a severe blow to LookSmart, given than Microsoft was its largest customer.
[October 7, 2003, 13:10]
LookSmart Draws On Desktop Power
News LookSmart, a US-based online directory is hoping to spin a small acquisition into a big project that will use distributed computing to improve its Web search results. In January, LookSmart quietly bought the assets of Grub, an Oklahoma-based...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
LookSmart Chooses Nokia For Web Directory Defenses
White Papers Security has always been important to LookSmart, the world’s leader in Web directories, because the company’s databases are accessible by millions of users worldwide. To complement their firewall protection, LookSmart began looking for an...
[November 26, 2003, 23:00]
Australian Mooter Takes On Google
News Capper remained tight-lipped about which provider that might be, but it is probable that LookSmart Australia and Overture will be near the top of the list of contenders. Winning the deal would be a shot in the arm for LookSmart, which recently lost...
[October 21, 2003, 10:25]
Spyware's Tentacles Spread To Search
News We have a blacklist of sites that (our partners) won't allow traffic from, and that list includes Clickthrutracking.com," LookSmart spokesman Dakota Sullivan said. LookSmart, an online search and directory service, said it recently investigated its...
[June 29, 2004, 12:50]
Yahoo's Overture May Force Microsoft's Hand
News LookSmart's stock price jumped nearly 25 percent to $4.21 on Monday, while FindWhat.com's shares closed up 12 cents to $23.11, after reaching a high of more than $25 during afternoon trading. Despite the blossoming commercial promise of Web search...
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
If You've Got The Cash, Google's Got The Answer
News Online directory service LookSmart launched LookSmart Live in 1999, with free search help from editors. In yet another test of new services, Google is quietly wading into the expert-advice market, a lackluster business that proved too taxing for...
[April 22, 2002, 9:08]
Search Engines Own Up To Paid-for Results
News Companies named in the complaint were AltaVista, AOL Time Warner, Direct Hit Technologies (owned by Ask Jeeves), iWon, LookSmart, Microsoft and Terra Lycos. Now, many sites, including Terra Lycos, LookSmart, Altavista and Ask Jeeves, are conforming...
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
Dot-coms See Gold In Consumer Data
News Other companies such as online advertising company Agency.com and search service LookSmart have recently introduced consulting and Web analytics divisions. LookSmart also announced a service last week to track, report and optimise online marketing...
[October 25, 2001, 9:46]
MSN Gets On Search Bandwagon
News In partnership with pay-for-performance ad companies such as Overture Services, LookSmart and Google, major Web portals make money when people click on sponsored listings within search results, a model that has shown to be lucrative for all...
[February 12, 2003, 8:14]
Expired Domains
Downloads DMOZ, LookSmart, and AltaVista. Find expired domains that are still listed on Yahoo! Cheap traffic still exists. Has useful additional features, such as checking number of links to domain on search engines, finding ideas for type-in domains from...
[September 16, 2002, 20:01]
Clickrisk Scanner Pro
Downloads Clickrisk Scanner Pro can help identify click fraud in Google, Yahoo, Overture, Kanoodle, e-pilot, Enhance, Looksmart, and other ad campaigns. Clickrisk Scanner Pro identifies click fraud caused by adware, a major source of bogus impressions and...
[September 28, 2005, 12:01]
Pop-up Ads Influence Web Rankings
News Jupiter Media Metrix's September traffic figures indicate that online pharmacy network ABPharmacy.com ranked No.among US Web properties, beating out sites such as iWon.com and LookSmart. Pop-up ads continue to gain momentum and drive up traffic...
[October 16, 2001, 10:00]
IGamebar
Downloads Ask Jeeves, Looksmart, and About. A toolbar for people who enjoy playing games on their PC. Download, try free, and buy hundreds of new and hard-to-find game trials, updated daily. All games are the full versions, no demos.
[July 28, 2005, 1:02]
ExportNation Export Import (EXIM) Tradebar
Downloads Also includes the search capability from all major search engines like, Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, NetScape, eBay, and Amazon. ExportNation.com released a new ExportNation EXIM Tradebar/Toolbar.
[December 20, 2006, 21:31]
Yahoo! Launches Advice Site
News And online directory service LookSmart closed its live advice site after it became difficult to support during the online ad market slump. Yahoo! is hoping to offer some better advice. The online portal company is launching a new advice site Monday...
[April 30, 2002, 9:03]
Google Agrees Click Fraud Settlement
News Internet Group doing business as Go.com, LookSmart and Ask Jeeves, now known as Ask.com. Representatives from Yahoo, Lycos, LookSmart, Go.com and Miva could not be reached for comment or did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
[March 9, 2006, 8:20]
The Day Ahead: Go.com Is Going In The Right Direction
News Portals lower on the Media Metrix food chain -- Ask Jeeves, About.com, Go2Net and LookSmart.com -- all top Go in market cap. Go.com reported a smaller-than-expected loss of 47 cents a share in the second quarter and topped Wall Street expectations...
[May 4, 2000, 12:58]
Lawsuit Seeks To Block Google Settlement
News The settlement would not apply to other defendants, namely Yahoo, Lycos, Miva, Go.com and LookSmart. Lawyers representing Internet search advertisers filed a lawsuit this week in an attempt to block a proposed $90m (£48m) settlement to a class...
[May 12, 2006, 9:30]
How Google Changed The Rules
News LookSmart shares have fallen more than 60 percent to $2.46 and $4.09, respectively. Though the market has seen a few leaders come and go over the last decade — anyone remember AltaVista? few would doubt that a distinct top tier has emerged...
[December 6, 2005, 16:50]
