Overture Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc., and United Online, Inc., provider of value-priced Internet access services, today announced a three-year renewal agreement in which Overture will provide its sponsored search results to the United Online properties. In addition, Yahoo! Inc., the parent company of Overture, will provide United Online with its own […]
Entries from November 2003
Overture, Juno, NetZero Renew Contracts
November 20th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Spyware Study Released, Reviewed by FTC
November 20th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
The Center For Democracy and Technology released a report criticizing spyware and downloadable adware programs for deceiving consumers and wreaking havoc with their computers.
The Washington, D.C.-based CDT is a public policy non-profit that advocates privacy, freedom of expression and open use of Internet technologies — and challenging surveillance on the Net is one of […]
Local Search, Multimedia Search Added to AOL
November 19th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Looking to add to its search features and perhaps expand into the search engine world dominated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, AOL announced today its acquisition of Seattle-based Singingfish, Inc., the audio and video search engine. Singingfish’s products include the largest index of streaming media content. They complement the integrated AOL Search features available on […]
Google Japan - Behind the Scenes at Google Nippon
November 18th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Japan believes in making its office a fun place for its employees to work in. As soon as you walk into the huge cavernous office, the first thing you see is a pool table, then some massage chairs, a kitchen, snack food, coffee counter and a few other leisure facilities. You feel like you […]
Overture Bans Illegal Drug Ads, Google May Follow
November 18th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Overture Services has stopped selling search-related advertising to unlicensed online pharmacies, in response to concern about illegal drug sales over the Internet.
Overture, the commercial search subsidiary of Yahoo, said Tuesday that it filtered the last of its advertisements related to online pharmacies or pharmaceutical drug sales on Monday, and it notified advertisers over the […]
Google is World’s #1 Search Engine
November 18th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
OneStat.com today reported that Google’s global usage share continues to rise and that Google’s search site is the number one in the world. Google’s global usage share has reached an all time high and has risen from 55.2 percent to 56.1 percent. Google’s global usage share has increased 0.9 percent the last 6 months . […]
Microsoft Newsbot to Rival Google News
November 17th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Microsoft has launched a Beta Test version of their four language Newsbot which is seen by many to rival Google News. This is Microsoft’s first move to truely launch a service that will compete with one of Google.
Compared to Google News, Newsbot is currently a bit hard on the eyes and the layout could be […]
Where’s the MultiMedia in Search Engine Marketing?
November 17th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Where’s the Multi Media in Search Engine Marketing? Apparently Search Engine Marketing and Mutli Media are not mixing. Why?
Perhaps those using multimedia search are not a good market for search engine marketers.
However, approximately 50 million U.S. consumers, or 21 percent of Americans over the age of 12, accessed audio or video webcasts in July […]
Bill Gates - Microsoft Never Talked to Google
November 17th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
In this USAToday article, Bill Gates claims that Microsoft never talked to Google about acquiring the search monster.
Microsoft has not had merger discussions with Internet search engine Google, as was widely reported, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says.
“We’ve never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in any way, shape or form,” Gates […]
Yahoo Adds Popup Blocker to Toolbar
November 13th, 2003 by Loren Baker, Editor | 37 Comments
The Yahoo! Companion toolbar has added an optional popup blocker that offers different features for dealing with popup window advertising.
The new Yahoo Companion Toolbar (only available for the IE browser) PopUp blocker is quite similar to the Google Toolbar’s popup blocker. Both must be a huge threat to the popup killer download industry. Both […]
