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Information Today
March 10, 2003
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO's Takeover of RoweCom Continues Though its bankrupt parent divine reportedly now faces the possibility of criminal charges stemming from a federal grand jury investigation, RoweCom continues to move toward an acquisition by EBSCO.   |
Information Today
February 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Divine Debacle Rocks Industry RoweCom, a library subscription agency and subsidiary of divine, Inc., has suffered financial collapse. The orders for subscriptions and payments that libraries placed with RoweCom throughout the fall were not passed along to the publishers, leaving both libraries and publishers in limbo. |
Information Today
January 13, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreak Update RoweCom and divine Negotiate with Creditors and Potential Buyers |
Information Today
January 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Steps into the RoweCom Deal After Swets Blackwell Backs Out Creditors of divine's RoweCom business have been on pins and needles for weeks waiting for a resolution to the subscription fund fiasco. |
Information Today
February 27, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
divine Seeks Bankruptcy Protection Chicago-based divine, inc. has crumpled, following its two-year run as a tech start-up, aggressively acquiring companies. So, what does this mean for the proposed EBSCO acquisition of divine's RoweCom being negotiated through the bankruptcy court? |
Information Today
February 3, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
RoweCom Files for Bankruptcy, Then Sues divine for Fraud In a bizarre twist to the continuing saga of the disappearing subscription money, RoweCom, the beleaguered subsidiary of divine, inc., filed for bankruptcy on Monday Jan. 27, then sued its parent company for allegedly looting the company. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has added a dictionary look-up... Ask Jeeves has launched Ask Jeeves 5.0... Daypop has expanded to include 19,000 more blogs... Recently Gigablast has expanded to include a chief management officer and a chief scientist... Google has purchased Applied Semantics... etc. |
Information Today
June 2003 |
News Break: The Latest on Google, Market Research, and More Like it or not, news about Google is dominating both the technology and mainstream media... Because of the privacy issues it raises, the USA PATRIOT Act continues to rile librarians and civil libertarians... etc. |
Information Today
August 2003 |
News Break: What's New in Enterprise Search, Insider Trading, and More FAST Buys AltaVista Enterprise Search... AskJeeves Sells Enterprise Search... Future Developments in Search... Faster Access to Insider Trading Filings... New KM Solutions... Library Alliance Fights BertelsmannSpringer Sale... etc. |
Information Today
December 20, 2002
Quint & Hane |
divine Library Services Financial Collapse Traps Library Subscription Budgets One of the nation's largest subscription agents, divine Library Services, has apparently suffered financial failure. The Massachusetts-based subsidiary of divine, Inc. is also referred to by many as RoweCom or Faxon, its former names. |
Information Today
March 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light The company adds key search technology and content to its extended enterprise solutions... |
Information Today
April 2003 |
The Latest on Companies, Search Engines, and Products Once again, the past month's news has been dominated by developments in the RoweCom/divine situation... A series of recent acquisitions reveals the pressures and mounting rivalries in the Web search arena... D&B, Hoover's Update... etc. |
Information Today
January 28, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
divine Acquires Northern Light, Announces Premium Content Agreement with Yahoo! Just 2 weeks after Northern Light announced it was refining its business focus and discontinuing free Web searching at northernlight.com, it has been acquired by Chicago-based divine, Inc., a provider of integrated solutions to the enterprise market. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
Searcher
September 2003
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Protecting Yourself Against "Rogue" Vendors: Beyond "Divine" Guidance Here's a scary thought. Is divine's RoweCom/Faxon the only loose link in the vendor chain? Does dealing with any other companies put your operation at a similar risk? |
Information Today
December 2003
Paula J. Hane |
The Latest on Enterprise Search Products, E-Books, and More There should be a steady supply of news to report, as vendors continue to announce new products and services through the end of the year. Here's a wrap-up of some of the news from the past month. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003 |
Industry News Microsoft Recognizes Research... Google Acquires Pyra Labs, Creator of Blogger... The acquisition of Hoover's by D&B became final in March... EBSCO announced it would acquire the U.S. operations of RoweCom Inc.... LoisLaw released LoisLaw Public Records... etc. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
InternetNews
August 3, 2004
Parker & Rodgers |
Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools The news follows closely on the heels Google's own local Web search offering. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
Searcher
October 2000
Stephen E. Arnold |
The 'R' Technology Revolution: Relationship, Research Revenue Single letters are the marketer's touchstones. We have the ubiquitous "e" used in company names, and, as one pundit exclaimed, "E-nough." We want to focus on "R" --- relationship technologies gathering research to produce revenue... |
Information Today
September 2004
Paula Hane |
Developments in Open Access, Search, and More Open-Access Update... Search Developments... Local Search Is Hot... Niche Engine... More on Desktop Search... Traditional Services' Upgrades... Miscellaneous Content News... |
Information Today
February 10, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Signs Definitive Agreements for RoweCom's European Business EBSCO Industries, Inc. has now signed definitive agreements to acquire the European operations (France, Spain, and the U.K.) of RoweCom/divine Information Services. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Information Today
May 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ProQuest Adds The Christian Science Monitor Archive... FIZ Karlsruhe Launches New Patent Database... Publishers Provide New Content to SwetsWise... MuseGlobal Unveils New Authentication Feature... etc. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page... Gigablast has removed the date sort option... etc. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003 |
Industry News No Divine Presence in Library Subscription Renewals... D&B May Not Clean Up with Hoover's... COUNTER Code of Practice... Dialog on World Chambers Network... Social Sciences & Humanities... Sci-Tech... etc. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Information Today
March 2003
Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
Information Today
April 21, 2003 |
Weekly News Digest Ask Jeeves Upgrades Ask.com... Gale Taxonomies Now Available through Taxonomy Warehouse... EBSCO Publishing Adds Databases... |
Information Today
February 2003
Paula J. Hane |
New Developments in Search Engines, Copyright, and More This has been an unusually busy time for search engine news, including ongoing rumors about a possible Google IPO. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Resources About Terrorist Attacks A collection of articles and resources relating to search engines and the terrorist attacks... |
Information Today
January 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Wrapping Up 2005; Looking Forward Recapping information industry headlines from 2005 and trends to watch in 2006. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb is now indexing and including Microsoft Word files available on the Web.... AltaVista has added a few new features to its news search... Ask Jeeves has announced that it will no longer have banner ads on its site... Google has been busy on the experimental front again... etc. |
PC World
July 2005
Laurianne McLaughlin |
New Search Stars What's the trend in Web search? Newcomers and search giants cook up specialty services that get you information faster than ever. |
Information Today
April 2004
Paula Hane |
EBSCO Celebrates Its 60th Anniversary If you haven't noticed, EBSCO is no longer just a journal-subscription company. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Information Today
March 8, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine Having launched a major challenge to Google's dominance of the Web search engine field Yahoo! has now added a Content Acquisition Program that offers enhanced coverage to both commercial and noncommercial data sources. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
Information Today
June 27, 2005
Barbara Quint |
'Fee' Web Content Accessed by Yahoo! Search Subscriptions The service, currently in beta, allows users to search fee-based content from sites such as ConsumerReports.org, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal Online. |
PC World
August 2004
Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2004
Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc. |
Information Today
October 8, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches. |
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. |
Information Today
April 25, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Ask Jeeves Hopes to Zoom Ahead of Competitors Ask Jeeves, usually seen as an also-ran to Google and Yahoo!, has just introduced some core search innovations that it says will significantly improve the relevance and speed of users' searches. |
