FAST at Espotting and Espotting at AlltheWeb
FAST announces an agreement with Espotting (a paid ranking search engine like Overture). FAST will provide the general search engine results at Espotting’s site after the paid ranking results. Also,...
View ArticleAltaVista Bought by Overture
The advertising search engine Overture announced plans to acquire AltaVista. It’s another interesting acquisition, although there are scant details on the long-term future of AltaVista. At least...
View ArticleAlltheWeb and FAST also Bought by Overture
Another week, another acquisition. Last week, Overture announced plans to buy AltaVista. This week it announces the planned acquisition of the Web Search Unit of Fast Search & Transfer which...
View ArticleGo Goes Google
With all the other recent changes, this caught me totally by surprise. Remember Infoseek that became Go after Disney bought it? It dumped its own search engine back in March of 2001 and replaced it...
View ArticleAlltheWeb All Overture
Overture announces that it has completed the acquisition of the Web search portion of FAST. So Overture now owns AlltheWeb. There is still only the press release about it on the Overture site and no...
View ArticleOverture Closes on AltaVista Deal
Overture announces that it has wrapped up the deal to purchase AltaVista. It will be interesting to see what comes from the following quote: “Overture plans to develop a common platform for its new Web...
View ArticleNow FAST Gets AltaVista Enterprise from Overture
On top of all the continuing confusion of acquisitions and ownerships changes in the search engine field, comes this one. Earlier this year Overture bought up AltaVista and the FAST Web Search business...
View ArticleFindWhat To Buy Espotting
FindWhat, another ad bidding engine like Overture and Google AdWords, is buying up Espotting, an ad bidding engine that has focused on Europe, for about 8.1 million shares of FindWhat.com stock and...
View ArticleYahoo! Completes Overture Acquisition
Now AltaVista, AlltheWeb, Inktomi, and Overture are all owned by Yahoo! The press release quotes CEO Terry Semel, “We are excited to combine the two companies to build the largest position in the...
View ArticleOverture to Change to Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions
Yahoo! has announced that Overture, their text ad division, will be renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions. Originally known as GoTo, the company became Overture in 2001. Yahoo! then bought Overture...
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