NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - FindWhat.com, an Internet search engine operator, said on Wednesday that it is buying privately-owned Espotting Media Inc. for $163 million to create an Internet marketing company, and raised its earnings estimates for the second quarter.
FindWhat.com, which is based in Fort Myers, Florida, said Espotting stockholders will receive 8.1 million […]
Entries from June 2003
FINDWHAT buys ESpotting
June 18th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments
MSNSearch Scientists Develop New Powerful Robot- MSNBOT
June 18th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments
Months ago MicroSoft announced that it would get serious about MSN Search, perhaps breaking its dependency on LookSmart, and it seems that they have jumped one of the first hurdles by developing a new web crawler.
1. What is MSNBOT?MSNBOT is a prototype Web crawler robot developed by MSN Search (http://search.msn.com ). The robot is a […]
Google and eBay Get in the Ring!
June 17th, 2003 by Loren | 6 Comments
CBSMarketWatch’s Bambi Francisco takes a new view to the industrial competition between search engines and online shopping entities by suggesting that Google and eBay could become huge rivals in the upcoming years:
Bambi’s Points:
* Both Google and EBay attract a significant pool of potential buyers. * Both rely on a significant pool of advertisers, like the […]
Overture Rapidly Trimming the FAT from AltaVista
June 17th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment
FAST Aquires AltaVista Enterprise Search Business
Fast Search today announced the acquisition of the AltaVista enterprise search business, including more than two hundred customers, from Overture Services, Inc. for an undisclosed cash amount. Overture obtained the enterprise search business as part of the acquisition of the business of AltaVista, which was announced on April 28, 2003. […]
The Divine Dr. Seuss and his Northern Light
June 16th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment
The Washington Post’s Leslie Walker’s article on David Seuss, who recently bought back the search engine company he founded in 1985, and which was purchased last year by Divine Inc.
Seuss bought back his creation on the auction block for a mere $81,000.
Leslie’s Article The Company that Bought the Bust
Other Articles:Northern Light Is Reappearing After Burnout […]
Let’s Dance! Google Reindexes Again.
June 16th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment
Looks like Google Dancers can have their fun, reindexing news.
Yahoo Japan Does Full Screen Beer Ads
June 16th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments
Yahoo Japan Corp. will for the first time have a full-screen advertisement for a new product on its Web site from Monday, sources close to the company said Saturday.
“Asahi Breweries Ltd. will run the advertisement for its new “happoshu” low-malt beer product on Japan’s leading Internet portal until June 30, the sources said.” from Japan […]
DealTime lowers Minimum Bid
June 16th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment
While other Pay Per Click search engines have recently been raising their minimum bids (Overture $.10, Google AdWords $.05) and some planning to (FindWhat $.01 to $.05), shopping search engine DealTime is doing a bid placement U-turn.
Lowering the bids is designed to reward broad participation in DealTime’s Merchant Network and enable merchants of all sizes […]
Waiting for Google
June 13th, 2003 by Loren | No Comments
When is Google going to go public? How can I make my fortune off of their IPO?
CBS Market watch states that Google may be worth up to 10 billion dollars and lists an array of scenarios to what the boys from Google may do with their new found IPO wealth (if it ever happens!). I […]
AlltheWeb/ Fast Search Toolbar Developed
June 13th, 2003 by Loren | 5 Comments
SearchGuild.com has developed an unofficial search toolbar using FAST/ AlltheWeb.com’s search engine as fuel.
The Unofficial AlltheWeb Internet Explorer toolbar searches the various sections of AlltheWeb, searches the current site gets Page Info/Backlinks/Citations/Pages Indexed and a random query picked/updated every so often from the AlltheWeb recent queries page.
Download the AlltheWeb Search Toolbar Here.
Other search toolbars:Google UCmoreYahoo […]
