According to numerous reports, Google has contacted investment banks about an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company in the range of $15 billion and $25 billion. Many financial analysts believe that a Google IPO be the most valuable public offering since the dot com IPO bubble went belly up years ago. Some [...]

As more and more brick and mortar businesses market themselves online, search engines (“gateways to the Internet”) have reacted by becoming more like an advertising platform and less like a simple directory. In fact, a few (Yahoo, MSN) have morphed into whole “portals” providing online users with options galore. Still, no one can deny the [...]

Interesting article on Search and User Popularity: Is site traffic more important than link popularity? I just learned of a new search engine that actually uses a combination of content relevancy and user popularity to determine rankings. It’s called ExactSeek.com. How does ExactSeek measure user popularity? The engine has teamed up with Alexa, which offers [...]

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I find this extremely relevant since there is news that Amazon (which owns Alexa) will be launching its own search engine soon. Overture Services, Inc. today announced it has extended its search distribution relationship with Microsoft Corp. in the United States and United Kingdom through June 2005. Under the terms of the new deal, the [...]

Overture Services, Inc. today announced it has extended its search distribution relationship with Microsoft Corp. in the United States and United Kingdom through June 2005. Under the terms of the new deal, the companies have entered into a paid placement search agreement to provide Overture search results to U.S. and UK users of MSN Search. [...]

Local search: the next big thing in pay per click This month Overture announced a trial of their technology for local pay per click search results in the US – the demo is *here* – and in July Google announced that its PPC adverts will be shown on Switchboard, a US telephone directory site that [...]

Google and Lycos Partner on AdWords Google has signed Lycos to AdSense Contextual Advertising. The portal is the latest high-traffic site to join Google’s growing distribution network for keyword listings on content pages. Google will provide relevant contextually-targeted ads to pages of Terra Lycos’ U.S. properties including Angelfire, HotWired, Lycos.com, Matchmaker, Quote, Raging Bull, Terra.com, [...]

Yahoo Launches New Shopping Search Yahoo! has launched its new price comparison service, the latest salvo in the battle for dominance in the Internet search space. Yesterday, the company opened the doors to its new Yahoo! Shopping service, which lets users search for products sold over the Web. More than 10,000 e-stores are listed on [...]