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Overture wins Freeserve UK Web-search contract
News Overture Services won the Web search business of UK Internet service provider Freeserve, supplanting Google in its flagship service and laying out new terrain for a fight. A representative for California-based Overture, a search company known for...
[July 9, 2003, 7:48]
Overture expands paid-search umbrella
News Overture has launched its operations in Australia offering paid-placement search services, headed up by an ex-AltaVista heavyweight. Overture gained a strong presence in Australia when it bought AltaVista in early 2003, and kept most of the local...
[February 5, 2004, 9:05]
Overture to buy AltaVista
News Overture Services plans to acquire search technology company AltaVista for $140m, or about £85m, in cash and stock, the latest sign of consolidation in the resurgent search business. Pasadena, California-based Overture, which auctions placement in...
[February 19, 2003, 8:18]
Overture founder set to unveil new search venture
News Bill Gross, the driving force behind commercial search pioneer Overture Services, is once again going for gold in Web search. Idealab has been a weighty force in Web search since Gross founded Overture, formerly GoTo.com, in 1998.
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Overture, Google win Yahoo! berths
News Japan on Monday said it has signed nonexclusive deals with rivals Google and Overture Services to begin displaying advertising linked to keywords in searches on its site. Overture said it will begin to syndicate its pay-for-performance advertising...
[November 18, 2002, 16:33]
Overture, MSN extend search pact
News Overture will continue to provide search services to Microsoft's MSN through 2004, the companies said on Monday. The new deal, an extension of earlier agreements between the two companies, also calls for Overture to provide search services for...
[October 1, 2002, 10:55]
Overture raises ad fees in UK
News Overture Services has doubled its minimum bid price for paid search listings in the UK, and now US marketers are bracing for a similar hike. The company already hiked rates for marketers in the United Kingdom from 5 pence to 10 pence in the last...
[February 6, 2003, 8:22]
Overture acquisitions target Google
News Overture plans to acquire some services of Fast Search & Transfer, another sign that it intends to compete more intensely for the Internet search market. Overture will pay Oslo, Norway-based Fast $70m (£44.5m) in cash, as well as a performance...
[February 26, 2003, 11:24]
Overture extends key Microsoft deal
News Internet search company Overture Services said on Tuesday that it had extended a relationship with Microsoft for at least a year, a move that locks in one of its most important customers. Overture, formerly known as GoTo, allows advertisers to pay...
[February 13, 2002, 6:31]
T-Online ordered to revive Overture deal
News Overture Services on Tuesday confirmed that it has obtained a court injunction to restore its contract with T-Online, one of Europe's largest Web access providers. Two weeks ago, T-Online dropped Overture as its exclusive paid search provider and...
[September 3, 2003, 16:20]
NBC signs up Overture
News Television network NBC on Monday is expected to announce a two-year partnership with Overture Services for sponsored search, becoming the latest Web publisher to lace query results with ads. Under its Overture deal, NBC will display the company's...
[November 10, 2003, 11:25]
Yahoo makes Overture worth £1bn
News Yahoo announced on Monday that it plans to buy search firm Overture Services in a $1.63bn (£1bn) deal, in a move squarely aimed at taking on competitors in the search-engine market. The deal calls for each share of Overture stock to be exchanged...
[July 14, 2003, 14:29]
Browzar drops Overture after privacy backlash
News A major element of the backlash since Browzar's launch last week has been related to its utilisation of Yahoo's Overture search engine, which has outraged many users by burying impartial results behind pages of sponsored results.
[September 4, 2006, 13:45]
Yahoo's Overture may force Microsoft's hand
News Yahoo's $1.63bn buyout of Overture Services signals a dramatic shake-up of the Web search market that could wake a sleeping giant: Microsoft. Yahoo announced it would dive into paid-search business head first by acquiring the industry's pioneer and...
[July 15, 2003, 8:22]
Browzar drops Overture after privacy backlash
Talkback Conclusive proof that an unknown brand releasing software as a beta is a recipe for disaster. Without a reference point for users to consider during their evaluation they won't have the technical/commercial credibility necessary to bail them out if...
[September 6, 2006, 13:57]
T-Online dumps Overture for Google
News T-Online, one of Europe's largest Web access providers, on Thursday signed a multiyear deal with Google for search services -- severing its contract with rival Overture Services early. T-Online, which operates in Germany, Spain, Austria, France and...
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
Browzar drops Overture after privacy backlash
Talkback If you don't want to use the default search engine of Browzar you can modify the binary file with a hex editor to use your favorite search engine: http://rogerkarlsson.com/blogs/misc/change-browzar-home-page/
[September 7, 2006, 9:05]
Penumbra: Overture
Downloads Like all good nightmares, Philip's begins with something all too real - his mother's death. The days following the funeral are characterized by nothing, save for an incessant feeling of abandonment.
[January 11, 2008, 6:00]
Yahoo celebrates ongoing recovery
News Yahoo on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, helped by its paid-search partnership with Overture Services and signs that online advertising is improving. Overture will become a subsidiary of Yahoo.
[October 9, 2003, 16:20]
Google takes on paid-search company
News Paid-search company Overture Services has some new competition: Google. EarthLink quietly relaunched its search page last month using Google technology and advertisements after the Internet service provider decided not to renew its relationship...
[February 7, 2002, 6:31]
