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Search Engine Watch
January 29, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Going, Going, Go.com-Gone The Go.com site is to close, according to a surprise announcement today from owner Walt Disney Company, marking the likely end of one of the web's oldest major search resources...   |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Go Going Elsewhere, Loses Logo Go is planning to shift from being a general appeal portal to concentrate instead on featuring entertainment content, it was announced last week. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Patent Wars II: CMGI Strikes Back Tempest in a teapot -- That's what I said in 1997, when Lycos announced it had patents on search engine crawling, and I see nothing different in light of AltaVista's recent claims... |
Search Engine Watch
March 9, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go.com Becomes GoTo The Go.com web site has switched over to providing search results from paid listings service GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update With the crash of the dot com economy, it is perhaps no surprise to see some search engines disappearing from the scene as well. This month's update notes the death of both the Infoseek Web search engine and the Deja.com Usenet search engine... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Files Patent Lawsuit Against Google Overture filed a lawsuit against Google last month, claiming that Google has infringed on its patents that apply to bid-for-placement search ranking and for account management tools... |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Acquire Ultraseek From Go.com Inktomi has announced that it is to acquire Ultraseek Corporation, the subsidiary of Go.com that produces search software used by web sites and companies for site-specific and Intranet searching. The acquisition is expected to close in November, Inktomi says. |
Search Engine Watch
February 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2009 |
Linux Group Grabs Microsoft Patents: Report The Wall Street Journal reported this AM that the Open Invention Network was in the process of acquiring former Microsoft patents in a bid to help protect open source users. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lawsuit Over Paid Placements To Define Search Engines A new chapter in search engine law was opened last week, when Mark Nutritionals filed lawsuits seeking $440 million in damages for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition against AltaVista, FindWhat, Kanoodle and Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
August 9, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google, Yahoo Settle Patent and Share Disputes Google and Yahoo announced today that they have resolved two contentious issues between the companies. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Dead Search Engines There have been major and significant changes in the search engine industry over the past few years, with surprising announcements almost every month. While most of the search engines' domains remain active, the actual state of the search engines is quite different... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has been busy, adding full Boolean searching, redesigning its site, and looking towards a new owner... AltaVista joins AlltheWeb in getting bought out, and by the same company, Overture... Google has been active the past few months, but not with its usual search activities... etc. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2009
Claire Stephanic |
Is Disney Up to the Challenge? Disney's acquisition of Marvel leaves the question of whether it's is up to the challenge of making Marvel's more obscure characters a success. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
A Primer on Software Patents A closer look at software patents and at their history and implications for IT. |
Search Engine Watch
October 20, 2004
Mike Grehan |
Search Memories Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now. |
Information Today
March 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Overture Acquires Two Major Web Search Engines On Feb. 18, Overture, which claims to be the "world's leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search to Web sites," announced that it had acquired AltaVista, a pioneer Web search engine. A week later, Overture announced that it had acquired all the Web search assets of Norwegian-owned FAST. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pledges Patents to Open Source IBM said Tuesday it is pledging 500 software patents to developers of open source software so they can develop without fear. The patents are available to those who abide by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and use one of 50 OSI-certified licenses. |
Search Engine Watch
November 23, 2005
Christine Churchill |
Understanding Search Engine Patents Search related patents provide insight into what's going on in search engine algorithms, and search marketers who understand these 'rules of ranking' are better positioned to win top position in search results. |
InternetNews
October 21, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
EU Patent Fight Comes to the Fore An effort to stop software patents in the European Union got a boost this week with the launch of NoSoftwarePatents.com. Red Hat and MySQL AB are among the high-profile open source companies backing the effort. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's on the Patent Offensive Google has an idea so novel that it should patent it. Standing on the shoulders of giants isn't necessarily a new endeavor for the paid-search leader. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Litigating for Profit Some of IT's biggest profits are found in the courtroom. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Ousts Overture At Earthlink, Begins Ad Distribution Google has begun serving up search results to users of the Earthlink web site, taking over a partnership previously held by Overture and marking the first move to distribute its paid AdWords listings outside the Google web site... |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's Reel People The media giant is scaling back its studio releases -- but don't tell its public relations department. |
InternetNews
November 5, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Jake Winebaum, CEO, Business.com The trajectory of Business.com is a paradigm of the Internet economy and only part of the CEO Jake Winebaum's wild ride. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Mickey's Smart Move: Selling Stores Children's Place and The Walt Disney Company have come to a definitive agreement for sale of the North American Disney stores -- a win for the Mouse's stakeholders. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2011
Evan Niu |
Are Eastman Kodak's Parts Worth More Than Their Sum? Shares of ill-fated Eastman Kodak popped today, after a Bloomberg article suggested that the company's portfolio of patents might be worth up to $3 billion. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2004
Roy Mark |
Disney Rejects Comcast's Takeover Bid Board leaves door open for higher bid from the cable ISP player. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2011 |
What's Fueling the Tech Patent Bull Market? As companies amass patents to sue each other, is it time for the patent system to be reformed? |
InternetNews
February 25, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB The chief talks about competition in the open source database space and treating software like ... art? |
BusinessWeek
February 13, 2006
Michael Orey |
A Sotheby's For Investors Patents are going up for auction -- and some big-name companies such as AT&T and American Express will be selling. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney.com's Extreme Makeover The time has come for Disney to stake its online claim -- with a much-needed and long-awaited revamp of its flagship website. Investors, take note. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Intellectual Property Help Findlaw.com has launched the Intellectual Property Center. The new site presents a substantial amount of free resources, including how to obtain, enforce, and protect patents and trademark rights. |
InternetNews
February 9, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Disney Turns to Windows Media for Protection A new multi-year pact gives Microsoft a major boost in the content creation and digital rights management and protection markets. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2010 |
Microsoft Rules the Software Patents Hill Again In the annual race to win as many patents as possible, Microsoft ends up in front at least in the software category. So how valuable are those patents to a company the size of Microsoft? |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2011
Rich Smith |
SEAL Team 6 vs. the Mouseketeers Disney surrendered to SEAL Team 6 yesterday. It has withdrawn its trademark applications, and (presumably) abandoned plans for the new television drama. Good work, Navy. And good riddance, Disney. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen? |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Radcliffe & Rosen |
Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret -- What's the Difference? - The intellectual property in software can be protected three ways: patents, copyrights and trade secrets. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2004
Rich Duprey |
A Patented Challenge to CNS The Patent and Trademark Office is reconsidering two patents of the nasal strips maker. Investors took notice and slapped the company down 8%, which ought to present an opportunity to pick up shares. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Cease-Fire at Disney SaveDisney.com will have to change its name now that a truce has been declared. No matter what, Iger is starting to prove that he was the right choice for Disney. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney's New Stores Disney's going in a new direction in retailing. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Gets Piggy Disney purchases Muppets to add to their content after contract negotiations break off with Pixar. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2004
Jeff Hwang |
Disney Ends Round 1 With its original offer shot down, will Comcast increase its bid? |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Listens to the Land The theme-park giant sells some parcels of land around its Florida theme park. |
Search Engine Watch
September 21, 2006
Shari Thurow |
Do Patents Point to SEO Gold? Do patents, white papers, and other publications authored by search engine employees provide clear guidance to how to optimize Web pages? A panel of experts debated the issue at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference. |
