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McAfee Strikes Yahoo Search Deal
News The deal will see Yahoo using McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to label a variety of potentially dangerous websites with red warning text and links to McAfee information about what risks the site poses.
[May 7, 2008, 11:04]
Yahoo Agrees Search-ad Deal With Google
News Under the deal, Yahoo will select the search terms for which Google will supply ads, the companies said. Google and Yahoo declared a limited two-week search-ad deal in April a success, but even the limited partnership raised antitrust hackles at...
[June 13, 2008, 8:35]
Google Buys YouTube For $1.65bn
News But YouTube later cut a deal with NBC to allow YouTube users to post content from NBC programmes, and it has followed up that deal with others involving companies such as Warner Music and, on Monday, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music...
[October 10, 2006, 8:35]
Google Wins $900m MySpace Deal
News Google has won a highly prized deal with MySpace.com to serve Web search and advertising listings to the nearly 100 million members of the News Corp-owned social network, besting rival Yahoo in the bid.
[August 8, 2006, 17:45]
Acer Sets Up Home With Yahoo
News In a deal announced on Thursday, Acer will put a customised toolbar and start page on all the PCs it sells worldwide, and make Yahoo the default search engine. Other moves in the increasingly-intense search wars include Yahoo striking a deal to put...
[September 14, 2006, 13:50]
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. Yahoo said the deal will allow it to expand its pay-for...
[July 14, 2003, 14:29]
Google Starts New Chapter With Amazon
News Google plans to provide search services and sponsored links to Amazon.com under a multiyear deal the companies announced on Thursday. The companies emphasised the search aspects of the deal over the sponsored links.
[April 3, 2003, 15:56]
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]
Sony Picks Google For Search Service
News Google has struck a deal to power Web search services for Sony's company sites. The deal marks the fledgling Web search engine's largest service deal to date, according to Google spokesman David Krane.
[August 17, 2001, 9:53]
US Report: Netscape Beefs Up Netcenter Search
News The deals follow Netscape's deal with Excite which calls for the search engine company to pay about $70m (£42.70m) to be featured on Netscape's Netcenter. Netscape said at the time of the Excite deal it would be working with other search sites.
[May 22, 1998, 6:00]
Google Sinks $1bn Into AOL
News Google will invest $1bn (£568m) for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video.
[December 21, 2005, 7:55]
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. The search technology company said the deal with Disney will include its algorithmic and sponsored...
[March 10, 2003, 15:23]
AOL And Google Extend European Alliance
News America Online and Google have expanded their partnership in Europe, in a deal that once again pushes search rival Overture Services to the margins. Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers here in the UK, as well as those in France...
[October 20, 2004, 9:45]
Yahoo! To Buy Inktomi
News is acquiring search engine firm Inktomi in a deal worth $235m (£147m), the companies said on Monday. said it extended into the long term a deal to carry Google's search listings as a backup for its own search directory, but did not provide a time...
[December 23, 2002, 14:45]
Overture Extends Key Microsoft Deal
News The Microsoft deal will allow the company to provide results for Microsoft's MSN search, and MSN's search results page will feature Overture's top three so-called pay-for-performance listings under the heading "sponsored sites.
[February 13, 2002, 6:31]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves Sale Agreed
News The Internet conglomerate, which is headed by media entrepreneur Barry Diller, said today it is hoping to move aggressively into the Web search market through the deal and pointed to growth in the online advertising market as another major...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
Overture, MSN Extend Search Pact
News The new deal, an extension of earlier agreements between the two companies, also calls for Overture to provide search services for Microsoft's MSN search pane through December 2003. The deal covers sites in the United States, Canada and the United...
[October 1, 2002, 10:55]
ITN Selects Start-up Blinkx For Video Search
News Search firm Blinkx has landed its first commercial deal as it attempts to become a major player in the emerging video search market. The deal is part of ITN's attempt to use the Internet as a media platform, on top of its existing focus on television.
[February 8, 2006, 12:50]
AOL Signs Up Google
News AOL said its deal with Google would provide pay-for-placement search results for its AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape Communications properties starting this summer. The company will continue to provide search results for AOL's properties in...
[May 1, 2002, 15:49]
Google Tipped To Buy AOL Stake
News Google may pay $1bn (£565m) for a 5 percent stake in America Online as part of an exclusive deal with Time Warner that would strengthen ties with the search giant instead of dumping Google for Microsoft.
[December 19, 2005, 9:20]
