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InternetNews
February 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
NY Times: It's All About.com The New York Times Company agreed to drop $410 million in cash for About.com.   |
Information Today
November 6, 2000
Barbara Quint |
About.com Acquired by Primedia: Sin or Synergy? The speed of the acquisition surprised both industry followers and staff members at About.com. The merger of a traditional publisher with a dot-com business marks another example of the blending of print and online in the Net economy... |
InternetNews
February 5, 2004
Janis Mara |
A Redesign's Afoot for About.com About.com will revamp as part of parent Primedia's reorganization and upgrade of its products. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Ask Jeeves Goes to the Blogs The search giant acquires the parent company of blog and RSS pioneer Bloglines. |
Search Engine Watch
October 24, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Sprinks, Plans IPO In a busy financial day for Google, the company purchased Sprinks, the former paid listings division of PRIMEDIA's About.com, while it was also revealed that an initial public offering is planned for early next year. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Future's All About.com Circulation rates, staffs, and page sizes keep getting smaller. However, New York Times has aggressively grown its online turf to compensate; even if it's cutting back elsewhere, the company's investment makes sense here. Investors, take note. |
Search Engine Watch
March 7, 2000 |
About.com No Longer Poster Child For Yahoo Abuse Examines comments in March 2000 that Yahoo was actively keeping About.com sites out of its listings. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Should Yahoo Buy Six Apart? When Six Apart bought blogging community LiveJournal in January, it acquired an extra 5.5 million users and serious gravitas. But can it make it as a standalone business? |
InternetNews
April 30, 2007
Michael Hickins |
Yahoo Takes Control of Right Media Yahoo announced its intention to acquire the remaining 80 percent of Right Media it didn't already own for approximately $680 million in cash and stock. |
Search Engine Watch
February 13, 2007
Greg Jarboe |
Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog? Why does Google News get more press and blog mentions than other news search engines, when Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique audiences? |
Search Engine Watch
January 25, 2006
Greg Jarboe |
Beyond Beta: Google News Graduates Google News -- the search engine of choice for journalists and news junkies -- has finally graduated from beta status, and with some shiny new features. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Makes the Right Decision Yahoo! buys an online ad exchange to boost its visibility. Yahoo! shareholders don't need their company to overtake Google to win. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Finally Hits Blog Scene Late to the party, Yahoo joins other search entities with social networking and blogging services of its own. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Burn, Google, Burn After a breathtaking ascent, this once beautifully volatile stock has been treading water in a tight range of little more than 10% over the past four months. Has Google finally found its market equilibrium? |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's First Miss? The online search giant has blown Wall Street targets away through its first five quarters as a public company, but onlookers will be biting their nails when Google walks up to the earnings podium next week. |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
It's Good to Be Yahoo! Yahoo! has another healthy quarter on the strength of paid search. |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
It Takes an iVillage Yahoo! lands a major content distributor in its marketing battle against Google. |
PC Magazine
March 31, 2004
John C. Dvorak |
Search Engine Mania Since Google is making money and is expected to bring in big bucks in a midyear IPO, suddenly search engines are the next big thing. |
InternetNews
August 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google to Buy Meetroduction Google is expected to announce the purchase of Meetroduction, a localized social networking software developer, later this week. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Fights Back Yahoo! isn't taking Google's quest for world domination lying down. The company appears to be gunning for Google's prime AdSense service juggernaut. |
Search Engine Watch
October 31, 2007
Steve Haar |
Search Quality Depends on Intention From a marketing perspective, we should try to keep in touch with the environments in which our ads and SEO efforts are seen by the users. |
Search Engine Watch
July 30, 2008
Eric Enge |
Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate? |
Search Engine Watch
June 30, 2005
Chris Sherman |
What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs Want a peek behind the scenes at the research and development efforts going on at the major search engines? Here's where to find the freshest info. |
Search Engine Watch
June 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Gains in Popularity, But Will It Last? Over the past year, Google took significant market share from Yahoo and MSN, according to a new report from industry analyst Hitwise. But the increasing popularity of vertical search sites poses a big threat to all of the major search engines. |
InternetNews
April 14, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Lights, Camera, Google The search engine will one day allow users to search, preview, play and purchase consumer video uploads. |
InternetNews
August 19, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Post Google IPO: Now, the Really Hard Part With Google's IPO completed, the search leader must compete not only on its stock price, but on its core search technology and its search engine marketing offering. |
Information Today
January 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Web Search Trends At Internet Librarian 2002, Danny Sullivan examined what's happening with Web searching tools. He said the past year had not seen huge developments, but rather incremental changes, in our evolving Internet technologies. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
January 19, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Be the Portal, Google Google's path to greatness will be more than a one-way-search street. Now that it is a public company, it is all but mandated to forge ahead and grow. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Laughs at Yahoo! and Microsoft Google's search-engine market share continues to grow, but problems still loom. |
Search Engine Watch
December 29, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of the Year Your Search Utility: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search... Search Advertisers Deserve Better: Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?... SEO Isn't A Criminal Activity... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Altered Ante A the new bid pricing strategy improves click-through rates and results in better leads, all three parties -- Google shareholders, AdWords customers, and AdSense publishers -- will be cheering the shift. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Death to Microhoo Yahoo! + Google = Bachelorhood for Mr. Softy. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Content Is King at Microsoft The software giant is following the herd into contextual marketing. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Lying Again? Is Google spurning Yahoo!'s business? Don't believe it. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Follows Google, Again The sluggish YPN program gets a Google-esque makeover. In short, it's the same "smart pricing" technique that Google has been using in its Google AdSense program for three years now. |
InternetNews
May 27, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Peter Horan, CEO, AllBusiness.com Following the $410M sale of About.com to the New York Times Co., the online media vet prepares for his next challenge. Can Peter Horan do it again with the small-business site? |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers A look at how and why the current search wars erupted, one that will no doubt gain further attention in the wake of expected public financial releases from Google. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Search for Google's Success Turns Up Two Words: Trust and Technology With a combination of top-quality search service and high credibility among users, Google offers some valuable business lessons - not just for search engines but for other types of Internet services as well... |
CIO
January 15, 2006
Juan Carlos Perez |
Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 12, 2008
Benjamin G. Edelman |
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Google Goes in Search of Blogs Blog search is Google's latest feature in its race to stay on top. But, for the most part, don't expect it to have an immediate impact on the bottom line. |
