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The Motley Fool
August 3, 2004
Rich Smith |
Lycos' Lesson for Google Investors Terra Networks bought Lycos high, but sells it low.   |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lycos Calls Back A blast from the past is back with a penny-pinching dream of a soft phone service. More than just a "me too" product, Lycos is offering long-distance rates in key markets that are less than half of what Yahoo! and eBay are charging. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
March 27, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Lycos Sniffing Out VoIP, And Then Some Lycos has joined the burgeoning free voice-over-IP fray by offering the service to its users. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2004
Ron Miller |
Lycos Trumps Google on e-Mail Storage Terra Lycos is first from the gate with a new e-mail service in Europe boasting 1GB of storage. But will users pay a monthly fee? |
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. |
InternetNews
January 31, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
Search Engine Watch
April 8, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Ask Jeeves: Why Buy Interactive Search Holdings? Ask Jeeves' recent significant acquisition of Interactive Search Holdings largely unremarked amid the recent sparring between industry titans Yahoo and Google. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2004
Rebecca Lieb |
Lycos U.S. Changes... Everything A one, two punch: the company announces a radical strategy shift, and a very lucrative contract with 24/7 Real Media. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
So Long Direct Hit, Hello Teoma Say your goodbyes to the Direct Hit search engine. Direct Hit is no longer the favored child of parent company Ask Jeeves, now that the company's new baby, Teoma, is growing up... |
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
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma Ask Jeeves has purchased the Teoma search engine, which has attracted interest over recent months as a potential relevancy challenger to Google... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Is Reborn Terra Lycos has been saying for ages that the HotBot site was slated for desperately-needed improvements, and now they've come. |
Search Engine Watch
August 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Lycos Introduces People, Discussion Search Tools In a bid to differentiate itself from Google and the other major search players, Lycos has rolled out two search tools aimed at helping people connect with other people. |
The Motley Fool
March 4, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Jeeves Excites Investors The search company snaps up the name behind iWon and Excite. |
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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Good For Google Does Not Equal Bad For Inktomi The loss of big portal Yahoo to Google's search service doesn't necessarily mean Inktomi is a big loser, just because Google is a big winner. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
The Problems With Rating Services Not only are figures from the web's major ratings services are far from perfect, but they can be and are manipulated much more by web property owners than could ever happen when compared to television ratings. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2004
Rick Munarriz |
Hail to the Jeeves Online content providers continue to rock in 2004 -- just Ask Jeeves. Paid search is the place to be. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos To Charge For Search? Well, Not Really Lycos doesn't really plan to sell search subscriptions to consumers. Instead, it hopes to raise revenue from search via webmasters... |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
Search Engine Watch
August 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, that will allow anyone to purchase ads directly on the Ask Jeeves network. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lights. Camera. Revolution! A blast from the past comes back to screen a new video game plan. For now, Lycos Cinema is providing a seed of innovation. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Lycos 50 Features Our Searches Forget live search displays. Lycos has realized that all our searches can make for great content, if assembled correctly. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Milestones for September 2003 Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves To Carry Google's Ads A three year deal will see Ask Jeeves carrying paid listings from Google on its search properties, including Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma.com. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Search Engine Watch
April 26, 2005
Andrew Goodman |
Viewing the Search Landscape Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who you ask, and how they're measuring. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users' computers. |
Search Engine Watch
September 21, 2004
Gary Price |
Ask Jeeves Serves It Your Way It's a busy day at Ask Jeeves with the announcement of several new services and enhancements, including the launch of a new personalized search tool and a major upgrade of the company's Teoma search engine. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Rich Duprey |
Microsoft Bulks Up Email The Regents of Redmond boost email capacity for Hotmail to 250 megabytes. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Tightens Belt, Stays Hopeful On Search AltaVista had another round of layoffs in January, losing 200 people, which cuts the company workforce to about 600 total. AltaVista is retaining its search engineering staff and says it fully intends to continue developing its own web wide search product, rather than outsourcing this... |
