Ask Jeeves Powering Lycos Search Ask Jeeves and Lycos have announced a deal in which Lycos will begin displaying search results generated by the Ask database. Ask Jeeves results, which replace listings generated by Norway’s FAST Search and Transfer Company, began showing on Lycos early this morning. Both Ask and Lycos are struggling to compete …
New York Times acquires About.Com The Times Company, owner of the New York Times has purchased About.com from Primedia for $410 million in cash. About.com employs approximately 500 experts or guides who create content on thousands of topics ranging from the arts to zoology, attracting 22-million visitors per month. “The global reach of About.com and …
About.com Content Portal Is For Sale The venerable About.Com is on the auction block. Founded in 1996 as the Mining Company, About is one of the oldest well-known Internet properties. In October 2000, About was purchased by Primemedia for $690Million worth of stocks. Today, the final bids are being accepted from five companies are thought …
Google’s Quarterly Growth Expressed in Triple Digits Google shares hit a record $210 in evening trading after the search giant released a quarterly report that beat most analysts’ expectations. Google considers itself the world’s largest generator of online advertising revenue, a claim founded on its triple digit growth from Q3 to Q4. In a highly …
Adding Value to Google AdWords This is a breaking story about Google AdWords based on several rumours, readings and conversations. There is a fair likelihood that some information here is erroneous. In an email, Google Advertising PR Michael Mayzel stated, “We are not providing comment.” If correct the implications are huge and might provide Google …
Nofollow to limit blog and comment spam Over the past year, Blogs have been used to manipulate search engine rankings in a very big way. Couple the immense power of link-distribution inherent in the Blogosphere with Google’s way of ranking websites based on the number and relevancy of incoming links and add a number of …
MSN Beta Search Is Now Live MSN has removed the beta-wrap from its proprietary search engine and is now showing self-generated results at MSN.Com. Beta results had started bleeding into MSN listings over the past three weeks but since Sunday (Jan 16), the .COM (US / Global) version of MSN has consistently mirrored those found …
Is There a Future for LookSmart? Former search giant LookSmart has reissued investor guidance numbers for the last quarter of 2004. Posting lower revenues than expected, the beleaguered firm admitted it overestimated potential revenues by about $2million and underestimated quarterly losses by about $700,000. The erroneous projections, originally issued in late October stem from poor …
Enhancing Search Engine Listings with Videos In the coming months a small start-up in Texas called SiSTeR Technologies hopes to introduce short video clips to search engine listings. Folks used to say a picture was worth a thousand words. That of course was in the days before video was an instantly accessible medium. Video advertising …
SEO Book Revenue Goes to Tsunami Relief Efforts Pennsylvania based Search Engine Marketing specialist and author of the SEO Book, Aaron Wall will be donating all January revenues from the sale of his 120 page E-Book to Tsunami relief efforts. The SEO Book, which sells for $79US is a do-it-yourself manual covering organic SEO techniques …
