Entries from September 2003

Loren

Google and Lycos Partner on AdWords

September 30th, 2003 by Loren | 2 Comments

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, Tripod, Webmonkey, […]

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Yahoo Launches New Shopping Search : Blogging News and Articles

September 23rd, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment

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 the […]

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Verisign Hijacking Domain Names with Paid Search Results

September 17th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments

Verisign Hijacking Domain Names with Paid Search Results
VeriSign has begun to redirect misspelled, non-existent, and expired domain names to its own web site which offers corrected spellings of these names, as well as paid advertising.
Verisign enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net. Some criticism is already brewing that […]

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LookSmart Class Action Lawsuit Settlement Proposed

September 16th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment

A proposed settlement to a 2002 class action lawsuit against LookSmart will compensate customers who were required to accept a new commercial listings agreement to maintain inclusion in LookSmart’s directory.
The suit, filed in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, claimed breach of contract, fraudulent business practices and misleading advertising.
In April 2002, […]

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WebAdvantage.net Adds Four New Search Engine Marketing Clients

September 16th, 2003 by Loren | 1 Comment

WebAdvantage.net (http://www.webadvantage.net), a full-service emarketing agency, announces that the acquisition of four new search engine marketing clients: Zurich North America, NatureMade’s Vitamin Herb University, Science Magazine’s ScienceCareers.org, and the Foster Wheeler Corporation. WebAdvantage.net will be providing annual search engine optimization and pay-per-click keyword campaign management to these companies, respectively.
Search Engine Optimization is […]

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Google Drops Blogger Pro, Adds More Functions for Free Bloggers

September 12th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments

Our friends at Blogger have dropped their paid version Blogger Pro. Many of the previously premium features have now been added to the free basic version. Some important features, like the RSS feed and post via e-mail are still unavailable on free Blogger. That may change soon.

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CyberJournalist.net: How Google News compares to competition

September 4th, 2003 by Loren | 3 Comments

CyberJournalist.net: How Google News compares to competition
How Google News compares to competition Google News gets about 3.4 million users monthly, according to Nielsen//NetRatings — which puts it roughly at the bottom of Nielsen//NetRatings’s Top 20 Current Events and Global News sites (see most recent list). comScore Media Metrix hasn’t been including Google News in its […]

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FindWhat.com Gets E-Commerce Tools

September 3rd, 2003 by Loren | 2 Comments

FindWhat.com Gets E-Commerce Tools
Search provider FindWhat.com (Quote, Company Info) announced on Wednesday plans to acquire Mirva, a provider of online storefronts and other e-commerce functions, in a bid to buff up its offerings for small businesses.
FindWhat agreed to pay privately held Mirva’s shareholders $2.7 million in cash and $2.7 million in stock, also assuming […]

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Google and Yahoo top e-business poll

September 1st, 2003 by Loren | 2 Comments

Google and Yahoo top e-business poll
Google and Yahoo have been identified as two of the outstanding websites in an e-business survey carried out for the University of Michigan.
The study, which measures the top 200 companies in this sector during the second quarter of each year, shows that America Online, though still not a top performer, […]

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