Search Engine Journal

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 companies have entered into a paid placement search agreement to provide Overture search results to U.S. and UK users of MSN Search. The agreement provides for the companies to potentially expand into additional countries.

The signing ends speculation that Microsoft would look elsewhere for paid search services or create their own instead of extending its relationship with Overture, which recently became a Yahoo! subsidiary.