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Sponsored Search Ad Remover
Downloads Search engine users are being flooded with sponsored search ads. This tool gives you the choice to view the search results without the sponsored search ads and thus reduces the visual clutter, so that you can find relevant information more quickly.
[February 13, 2006, 1:01]
McAfee: Beware Sponsored Search Results
News In the worst cases, users who click on malicious sponsored links risk having their machines compromised by hackers. Sponsored links were found to be particularly dangerous, and were up to four times as likely to be dangerous.
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
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]
Sponsored Ad Blocker
Downloads Sponsored Ad Blocker protects the relevance of Web searches by blocking often misleading and annoying sponsored search ads on Google, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and over 20 other search engines and Web sites. This software is not ad supported and contains no...
[March 31, 2005, 2:31]
Microsoft To Power Facebook Search Ads
News In the coming months, Facebook will begin powering its web search and related sponsored text links with Microsoft's technology, in an expansion of a strategic relationship between the two companies. Microsoft rival Google provides search and...
[July 25, 2008, 10:59]
EBay Clamps Down On Use Of Its Name
News Auction giant eBay has moved to block Google advertisers from using its trademark in sponsored search results that appear on Google and across the Web. Google, which declined to comment for this story, lets advertisers bid for placement in...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
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]
Search Payments Cause A Wave Of Concern For Surfers
News The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be able to tell when search results are advertiser-sponsored, thanks to sometimes-unclear disclosure on the part of search companies.
[October 14, 2003, 15:15]
Yahoo! Adopts Paid Search Listings
News said on Tuesday that it has partnered with for-fee search service Overture to add sponsored links to its directory, in a move to bolster revenue as advertising sales wane. tested the waters of sponsored links by selling placement for select...
[November 14, 2001, 15:24]
Lycos Upset Over Yahoo Acquisition
News The suit charges that Overture, a provider of sponsored search results, wilfully disregarded its contractual obligation to obtain consent from Lycos before it would share confidential information about its business with third parties.
[November 5, 2003, 11:35]
T-Online Dumps Overture For Google
News Overture, which licensed sponsored search and Fast's algorithmic Web search to T-Online, is expected to be acquired by Yahoo later this year in a deal valued at $1.7bn (£1.06bn). T-Online signed Google to provide Web search results and Google...
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
Google Expands Korean Search
News In January, Overture signed a three-year exclusive deal with Daum to provide sponsored search results on its network, as part of its expansion to that region. Armed with relatively new or upcoming offerings, both Overture and Google could have won...
[March 20, 2003, 8:42]
Overture Expands Paid-search Umbrella
News Companies then bid on the terms and are ranked in the sponsored search section according to how much they pay per click through. Overture will not allow certain search terms to be sponsored, such as pornographic terms, gambling, pharmaceutical...
[February 5, 2004, 9:05]
Google Factors Clicks Into AdWords
News The ads appear as "sponsored listings" alongside traditional search results. The program also syndicates the sponsored listings, along with the nonpaid, algorithmic search results with which they appear, to Google partners including America Online...
[October 9, 2003, 12:40]
Paid Search Boosts Yahoo Revenue
News Overture provides payments to Yahoo for displaying its advertiser-sponsored search listings atop results pages. Each time Web surfers visiting Yahoo click on one of the sponsored links, Overture collects a fee from the advertiser behind the link...
[May 16, 2003, 9:40]
Google Tipped To Buy AOL Stake
News Google also could promote AOL Web sites among sponsored links in search results, according to an unidentified source in the report. According to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google derives as much as 10 percent of its...
[December 19, 2005, 9:20]
Google Does Disney Deal
News The search technology company said the deal with Disney will include its algorithmic and sponsored results for Go.com queries. Google's sponsored results compete directly with those from Overture, where advertisers pay a per-click fee for higher...
[March 10, 2003, 15:23]
McAfee: Yahoo Search Most 'risky'
News Yahoo said it already has a rigorous editorial policy on sites displayed by its search results, especially for sponsored results. Reggie Davis, vice president of marketplace quality at Yahoo, told ZDNet.co.uk: "We have strict editorial policies in...
[June 5, 2007, 15:11]
$1.85bn Ask Jeeves Sale Agreed
News The buyout comes during a period of intense activity across the search market, as the leading players have been aggressively expanding their efforts around emerging business models and trends in the sector, including local search, blogs and...
[March 21, 2005, 17:15]
EBay And Google Team Up On Text Ads
News As part of the deal, Google will deliver sponsored links to eBay's search results pages only when there are insufficient results from eBay for a particular query. The deal naturally shuts out eBay's US advertising partner, Yahoo, which holds...
[August 29, 2006, 11:50]
