More Ominous Signs for Overture
Date: 2003-04-02 Source: InternetNews.com
Microsoft has tripled its search staff and might develop its own paid-search service that would put its relationship with Overture Services in jeopardy, a research analyst said Wednesday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Spotlight on Overture
Date: 2003-03-25 Source: SageRock.com
A look at a new Overture policy that affects smaller web marketers and designers. Do they underestimate future pay-per- click competition from Yahoo or MSN, or not worry that these little, but important, SEO people will start to turn their loyalties towards those bargain- priced, well-run, smaller pay-per-clicks? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture To Partner With "ScumWare"
Date: 2003-03-13 Source: High Search Engine Ranking
More evidence has come to light that suggests that pay- per-click search leader Overture is heading towards a permanent partnership with controversial online advertising network Gator Corp. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture Goes Shopping
Date: 2003-02-27 Source: About Web Search
Industry watchers are buzzing over Overture's recent purchase of search technology companies Alta Vista and FAST. Find out, in laymen's terms, why they've bought them and what this purchase means to you. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
New direction for Overture
Date: 2003-02-26 Source: News.com
Having attracted its share of envy and imitators, commercial search powerhouse Overture Services has decided it needs to be more like some of the rivals nipping at its heels. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture acquires Fast
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: Pandia
We certainly didn't see this one coming: The Overture pay-per-click search engine company will buy Fast's Web search division (i.e. the division behind the AlltheWeb search engine). [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture to Acquire FAST's Internet Assets
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: FAST
Under the terms of the agreement, Overture will acquire FAST's Internet business unit assets including FAST Web Search, AlltheWeb.com, and FAST PartnerSite products, related intellectual property rights, as well as data centers and equipment in Sacramento (USA) and London (UK). In addition, the FAST Internet business unit personnel will transfer to Overture. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture to Buy FAST
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: InternetNews.com
Paid search leader Overture Services backed up its talk of becoming a leader in all types of search by announcing an agreement on Tuesday to acquire the Web search unit of FAST Search and Transfer in a deal worth up to $100 million. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture to buy Fast search
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: News.com
The company plans to acquire the Web search services of Fast Search & Transfer, another sign that it intends to compete more strongly on the Internet search market. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division
Date: 2003-02-25 Source: The Search Engine Report
Consider a puzzle analogy. Purchasing AltaVista was the missing piece of the puzzle that Overture needed to complete the "all-in-one" search solution that it wants to offer to partners. Purchasing FAST simply gave Overture getting an extra puzzle piece it didn't need to complete its search products picture. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture's Gamble
Date: 2003-02-19 Source: InternetNews.com
Meisel said Overture had been in contact with its two big partners, Yahoo! and MSN, which account for nearly two- thirds of Overture's revenue. He said they would evaluate Overture's intentions based on its actions with the site. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture Oscillates
Date: 2003-02-07 Source: Fool.com
The leader in pay-for-performance search advertising reported a 97% jump in revenue after the bell yesterday, hitting raised targets and a fourth-quarter profit of $0.16 per share. It also increased sales expectations for 2003, but lowered its earnings forecast. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture's Insatiable Cash Machine Explained
Date: 2003-02-07 Source: Traffick.com
Perhaps most disturbing of all is the tendency of those at the higher levels of the advertising and publishing business to disdain the "mom and pops" - although one is happy to take their money, it doesn't seem cool to speak well of them. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture Plunges as Costs Rise
Date: 2003-02-06 Source: TheStreet.com
The prospect of a steep shortfall in the first quarter, and the bad news on so-called traffic acquisition costs, a key component of the bearish case on the stock, knocked Overture down 15% in after-hours trading. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture amplifies AOL Europe deal
Date: 2003-02-05 Source: News.com
Overture Services said Wednesday it has expanded its deal to provide pay-for- placement search results for AOL Europe's Web sites, a move that intensifies the company's competition with rival Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture teams up with ESPN
Date: 2003-02-04 Source: News.com
Overture Services said Tuesday it has struck an exclusive two-year agreement with ESPN.com to offer its commercial search results throughout the sports Web site. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture Sags as Exec Defects to Yahoo!
Date: 2003-01-28 Source: TheStreet.com
While Overture has enjoyed success that's atypical for both Internet and advertising- dependent businesses, detractors of the company's stock say Overture is at the mercy of the Internet properties, such as Yahoo!, on which Overture's search engine appears. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Creeping Costs Put Overture Under the Gun
Date: 2003-01-14 Source: TheStreet.com
Despite the company's revenue and income growth in what is otherwise a difficult environment for online advertising, short-sellers argue that Overture will have to spend an inexorably rising percentage of its revenue on traffic acquisition costs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
