Articles Sorted By Search Engine(3094) Articles in this category are broken down by search engine. These articles primarily cover business oriented issues.
Legal Issues(129) From lawsuits, to dealing with governments, the articles in this category cover the domestic and international legal issues facing search engines.
RealNames Temporarily Suspends Registration Of Generics
Date: 2000-01-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
Last month, I reported how RealNames had been allowing some companies to register generic terms as RealNames Internet Keywords, a significant change in its previous policy against generics. Now RealNames has temporarily suspended the registration of generic terms altogether. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
On the Net in 2000
Date: 2000-01-01 Source: Online
Who knows what changes the future holds for the Net and its teeming masses? But we can gain some insights into that future by looking a bit at the trends of the past year and the beginning rumbling of upcoming innovations. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Slipping Generics Into Specifics
Date: 1999-12-06 Source: Search Engine Watch
RealNames has had a long-standing and laudable policy of not selling a generic term to any one company. But in the past two months, the company has cut two significant deals that go against this policy, enabling both its partners and RealNames itself great benefits. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
France Telecom Launches VoiLa Portal in UK
Date: 1999-12-01 Source: InternetNews.com
VoiLa's UK launch adds another major market to the 80 million page-per-month portal which has already been introduced to Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the U.S. and Canada. It first appeared in France in July 1998. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
FTC Steps In To Stop Spamming
Date: 1999-10-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
There's a new sheriff in town, with the initials FTC. In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
StarMedia Debuts Spanish-Language Portal
Date: 1999-09-16 Source: InternetNews.com
The portal will focus on quick retrieval of personalized information, primarily through a search engine which boasts an index of more than 110 million documents. The engine can also search by language and country. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Spricht Deutsch
Date: 1999-06-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
The popular German search service Fireball is now displaying RealNames information at the top of its web results, similar to how RealNames have been presented at AltaVista. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Get Vertical
Date: 1999-06-01 Source: Wired
Next up are vertical portals - category killers that specialize in one subject area and seek to provide everything you could possibly want on that subject. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Expands Namespaces
Date: 1999-04-05 Source: Search Engine Watch
RealNames has introduced three new namespaces to demonstrate what it hopes will become common place for companies: the creation of custom RealNames databases to serve their various searching needs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Amazon Paid Placements Raise Ethics Questions
Date: 1999-03-03 Source: Search Engine Watch
Amazon is not a search engine, but the recent revelations that publishers have paid for placement within the service have caused questions to be raised about paid placements within search engines. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Ramps Up
Date: 1999-02-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
ealNames announced a partnership with Inktomi in January, which extends the alternative web address system's presence even further into the search arena. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Swedish Firm Launches New Generation Search Engine
Date: 1999-01-12 Source: InternetNews.com
A new Swedish search engine, Allt.com, is being touted as a "new generation search tool," and with an index of 2.5 million Swedish Web pages, is one of the most comprehensive search site in the Swedish language. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
myGO.com Augments Portal
Date: 1999-01-06 Source: InternetNews.com
myGo.com is new on the portal scene, created in December 1998. It features links to more than 100 sites in categories ranging from business and computers to recreation, music and health [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Gets Backing From Network Solutions
Date: 1999-01-05 Source: Search Engine Watch
Network Solutions, which oversees the registration of .com, .net, .org and .edu domain names, has agreed to sell RealNames as part of its services. It is also making a $4.2 million investment in Centraal, the company behind RealNames. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engines Graduate To Funding
Date: 1998-12-17 Source: Red Herring
The days of struggling computer students starting multibillion dollar technology companies in their garages may be waning, but leading-edge Internet companies are still emerging from the nation's universities. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames Expands Listings
Date: 1998-09-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Those using the RealNames links on AltaVista are more likely to be taken directly to an appropriate web site, now that the RealNames system has greatly expanded its listings. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Latest Acquisitions
Date: 1998-09-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Infoseek has agreed to acquire Quando. Lycos has agree to acquire WhoWhere. AltaVista has reached an agreement to acquire the altavista.com domain. Inktomi has agreed to purchase C2B Technologies. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
