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  • Google in lead as search wars heat up
    The Register 06/30/2000
    Reliance on search engines is increasing and will continue to do so, so it is not surprising that there are shake-outs from time to time. The latest changes have affected Inktomi, Euroseek and Google.

  • Alta Vista - It Lives!
    The Register 06/30/2000
    AltaVista's flat-fee Net access service is now up and running, The Register is delighted to confirm.

  • Good search engine ranking is free advertising
    InternetDay 06/30/2000
    Getting a good search engine ranking is FREE advertising. Just how to do this is the question. There are literally millions of web sites out there.

  • perksatwork.com Morphs to Portal Player
    InternetNews.com 06/30/2000
    Ditching its campy, cute moniker, the company formerly known as perksatwork.com changed its name to Abilizer this week to stake its claim to the corporate portal market.

  • Internet company building huge online database of newspapers
    The Gazette 06/30/2000
    Newspapers have been a fixture in daily life since the mid-18th century, capturing the unstoppable flow of human existence in words and pictures. So imagine being able to access stories right out of the pages of history - the sinking of Titanic, the Battle of Waterloo, D-Day - right from your living room.

  • Google has upper hand in war of search engines
    Times of India 06/30/2000
    Imagine scanning a stack of paper more than 70 miles high. Imagine doing it in half a second. Imagine finding the untraceable. Google, a Silicon Valley company that has bagged several technology awards, can do all that and more.

  • Convergys Joins Ask Jeeves Team
    Multichannel News 06/29/2000
    Convergys has joined the Ask Jeeves Solutions Partner Program. Ask Jeeves is a real-time, instant text-messaging co-browsing service.

  • Yahoo!'s Google Pact Signals Search Shakeup
    Forrester Brief 06/29/2000
    The exchange of Inktomi for Google as the default search vendor on Yahoo!'s site signals a realignment of the search stars.

  • Yahoo! Debuts in Indian Market
    InternetNews.com 06/29/2000
    Yahoo! Inc., the world's leading Web-based media and communications group, on Thursday announced the start of its Indian portal in a market predicted to show one of the fastest growth rates in Internet users.

  • Yahoo! Launches Player
    InternetNews.com 06/29/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. Thursday announced the official release of Yahoo! Player.

  • Ask Jeeves: Unquestionably, People Want Answers
    Internet Stock Report 06/29/2000
    What stocks should I buy? You might want to go to Ask Jeeves and see what the answers are. Or, you might even consider buying the stock of Ask Jeeves.

  • Toys "R" Us, Yahoo may partner on free ISP
    CNET News.com 06/29/2000
    Toys "R" Us and Yahoo are close to partnering on a free Internet service featuring the Web giant's content and services, according to people familiar with the deal.

  • Yahoo taps Microsoft for media player in hot market
    CNET News.com 06/29/2000
    Yahoo today unveiled a Net media player based on Microsoft technology, joining a heated battle for control of the growing market for audio and video content on the Web.

  • The Search Engine as Cyborg
    New York Times 06/29/2000
    As the Web sprawls out of control, search engines are overheating and programmers are trying something new: human beings.

  • Yahoo's Switch to Google Won't Sink Inktomi
    TheStandard 06/29/2000
    News that Yahoo is switching the search engine featured on its portal from Inktomi to Google might be a marketing coup for Google, but it won't sink Inktomi, which has plenty of other customers and business not related to search.

  • Yahoo stuffs eGroups in its mailbox
    Redherring.com 06/29/2000
    EGroups scrapped its planned $75 million initial public offering first thing Wednesday morning. But do not cry for the email provider: Yahoo bought the company for $432 million moments later.

  • Bright Station's WebTop will search for beenz
    citywire.co.uk 06/29/2000
    Bright Station, formerly Dialog, has done two high profile deals for its WebTop context-based Internet search engine, which it says is now one of the world’s four largest by pages indexed.

  • WebTop.com Announces Indexing of Half a Billion Web Pages
    StockHouse Canada 06/29/2000
    Bright Station plc, the Web solutions, eCommerce and Internet ventures group, today announced that WebTop.com, its Internet search engine, has now indexed over half a billion documents on the Web, making it one of the world's four largest Internet search engines.

  • Backhoe Strikes Yahoo!
    Inter@ctive Week 06/29/2000
    Too bad operators of fiber-optic networks have a long-standing policy not to identify backhoe operators responsible for cutting high-speed lines carrying millions of bites of data.

  • eGroups' Acquisition: Some Perspective
    Ezine-Tips.com 06/29/2000
    For those of you who keep up on the email list industry, you've probably already heard the news of Yahoo!'s intention to buy eGroups.

  • Yahoo!'s eGroups Buyout Fuels E-Mail Lists
    Forbes.com 06/29/2000
    The union of fast-growing eGroups and Web powerhouse Yahoo! could give rise to billions of e-mails while unleashing real synergies.

  • Prefer Network Inks Search Engine Deal with Inktomi
    AtNewYork 06/28/2000
    Call it a deal with growth potential on an order of Inktomi for Alley start-up Prefer Network, the e-commerce "accelerator" for a bevy of catalog and retailing merchants.

  • eLuminator Helps Publishers Dominate Search Engines
    ContentBiz.com 06/28/2000
    Normally we at ContentBiz.com don’t get that excited
    about yet another (often semi-scam artist) vendor claiming to get publishers better search engine rankings.

  • Boo.com's Remains Help Stoke Up UK Web Search Tool
    Excite News 06/28/2000
    Bright Station Plc unveiled a souped-up Internet search engine on Wednesday, to be fed at first from the remains of fallen online retailer Boo.com.

  • News Corp Takes 15 Pct in India Portal
    Excite News 06/28/2000
    Indian technology portal ITspace.com said on Wednesday that media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Ltd had picked up a 15 percent stake in the portal firm.

  • Looking for the Best ROI
    ClickZ 06/28/2000
    Real-time campaign data on SEO is becoming available through several third-party services.

  • Yahoo! to Acquire eGroups
    Yahoo! Finance 06/28/2000
    Yahoo! Inc., a global Internet communications, commerce and media company, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire eGroups, Inc., an email group communication service that makes sharing interests, collaborating, and exchanging ideas among many people via email easy and efficient.

  • Yahoo! Acquires Group E-Mail Provider
    InternetNews.com 06/28/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. Wednesday bought group e-mail provider eGroups Inc. for $428 million in stock.

  • Lycos Targets Wireless Market
    InternetNews.com 06/28/2000
    The company announced Wednesday that LycosLabs, its early stage business accelerator and incubator, has invested in Boston-based thinkingBytes Technology Inc., a wireless provider of applications for the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market.

  • Microsoft Selects Euroseek for Nordic Search Functions
    InternetNews.com 06/28/2000
    Microsoft Corp. Wednesday entered into an agreement with Euroseek to develop Microsoft's MSN and Internet Explorer region-specific portals.

  • AltaVista signs deals with two auction sites
    CNET News.com 06/28/2000
    AltaVista has expanded its presence in the auction arena, announcing one-year deals with AuctionWatch and uBid.

  • Ask Jeeves puts search in your Palm
    CNET News.com 06/28/2000
    Ask Jeeves today said it will offer a wireless application for Palm handheld computers.

  • Murdoch's News Corp. buys stake in Indian portal
    The Nando Times 06/28/2000
    Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has bought a 15 percent stake in the Indian internet portal ITspace.com, officials said Wednesday.

  • Sohu.com IPO Price Range Rises to $16-$19 a Share
    Excite News 06/28/2000
    Leading Chinese Web portal Sohu.com on Wednesday raised the projected range of its initial public offering of 4.6 million shares to $16-$19 per share from $13-$16 a share.

  • Yahoo buys email list service eGroups in stock deal
    CNET News.com 06/28/2000
    Web giant Yahoo today said it will pay $432 million in stock to acquire privately held eGroups, an email list service.

  • Jeeves To Play In Lakers' House
    Adweek Online 06/28/2000
    Jeeves, the quirky, animated butler logo of the Ask Jeeves Internet search engine, will appear on the Staples Center Jumbotron next season asking fans trivia questions during Los Angeles Lakers home games.

  • AltaVista begins 48-hour countdown to ISP launch
    The Register 06/28/2000
    The countdown to the launch of AltaVista's all-you-can-eat Net access service has begun.

  • AltaVista to Offer Germans Some Free Net Access
    InternetNews.com 06/28/2000
    Internet search engine AltaVista Co will offer its German customers 10 minutes cost-free Internet access a day from next month in a bid to attract more users.

  • Yahoo! to buy eGroups for $432M in stock
    CNNfn 06/28/2000
    Leading Web portal Yahoo! agreed Wednesday to pay $432 million in stock to acquire eGroups Inc., an e-mail group communication service that unites people who share a common interest.

  • InPhonic Adds Lycos To Its List of Deals
    washingtonpost.com 06/28/2000
    Washington start-up InPhonic.com has inked a deal with Web portal Lycos Inc. to supply it with private-label cellular phones, securing one of the most visited sites on the Web for InPhonic's novel approach to selling wireless devices and services online.

  • Have Search Engine, Will Travel
    Gomez.com 06/28/2000
    TripAdvisor.com has developed a specialized travel search engine that organizes and ranks travel destination information in ways that correlate with a particular consumer's profile.

  • eGroups acquisition will extend Yahoo's influence
    CNET News.com 06/28/2000
    Yahoo's acquisition of eGroups, a community-enabling Web service that specializes in email lists, highlights the portal giant's desire to extend its influence further beyond the browser.

  • ExciteAthome, Yahoo E-Mail Services Interrupted
    Yahoo! News 06/28/2000
    E-mail service was delayed for millions of ExciteAtHome Corp. and Yahoo customers in recent days due to problems with the technology that supports the services.

  • Outages strike Yahoo services
    CNET News.com 06/27/2000
    Yahoo was hit with service interruptions today, with people complaining they were locked out of areas including email accounts, instant messaging and the Yahoo Finance site.

  • China's Sohu, Netease IPOs May Face Cool Welcome
    Excite News 06/27/2000
    Revived Nasdaq listing plans by web portals Netease and Sohu may get a cooler welcome than previous China-related Internet plays, analysts said on Tuesday.

  • Google Is Yahoo's New Search Engine
    SF Gate 06/27/2000
    Internet portal Yahoo said yesterday that it is changing its search engine, replacing Inktomi with Google, a fledging Web search service in Mountain View.

  • Do you ... Google? Yahoo does -- to Inktomi's dismay
    Redherring.com 06/27/2000
    Yahoo announced June 26 that it is replacing its primary search engine provider, Inktomi, with the privately held Google.

  • Chinese Portals Search For Ad Dollars
    Forbes.com 06/27/2000
    The appetite for Asian Internet companies is voracious, but portals that rely on advertising and e-commerce business have big hurdles to clear.

  • New York Times Co. to create wireless portal with i3 Mobile
    CNET News.com 06/27/2000
    The New York Times Co. and i3 Mobile said today they plan to create a wireless portal that will allow customers to receive content on wireless phones from New York Times Digital, the publisher's Internet unit.

  • Wireless Portal Revenue: $42 Billion by 2005
    CyberAtlas 06/27/2000
    Global revenues for wireless portals will grow from $747 million in 2000 to $42 billion in 2005, according to research by Ovum.

  • Octopus Lets You Grab the Web
    siliconvalley.internet.com 06/27/2000
    After months in public beta, the recently spiffed up Octopus.com goes live June 27 with its fully functionally official version. Palo Alto-based Octopus is a free Web service designed to help users easily grab and organize content from anywhere on Web.

  • Google's Cool Billion Web Page Index
    About Web Search 06/27/2000
    Google has sprinted into the leading position as the Web's largest search engine, introducing a new billion-plus page index that also contains the largest collection of international Web sites.

  • Google Is Yahoo's New Default Search Engine
    ComputerUser 06/27/2000
    Yahoo Inc. announced today that privately held Google Inc. will be its new default search engine, replacing Inktomi Corp., which will be used to conduct searches for Yahoo's new business information portal, Corporate Yahoo.

  • Yahoo! picks Google for search
    Advertising Age 06/27/2000
    Yahoo! selected the popular new search engine Google to be its default search engine.

  • Yahoo drops Inktomi search engine for Google
    vnunet.com 06/27/2000
    Web surfers using Yahoo's search function may not know it, but different technology will be powering their searches from next month - a Google rather than an Inktomi search engine.

  • Golden Hope launches Malaysia's first agro portal
    The Star Online 06/27/2000
    Golden Hope Plantations Bhd has launched Malaysia's first agro-portal or on-line sales and marketing for agricultural seeds and fruit puree.

  • Yahoo announces a plethora of new deals with Taiwan
    Taipei Times 06/27/2000
    Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang in Taipei yesterday announcing a series of deals involving Taiwanese companies.

  • Google Partners With Yahoo, Announces Largest Index
    Search Engine Watch 06/26/2000
    Yahoo's secondary results are to begin coming from Google within the next 30 days, through a new partnership announced today.

  • Yahoo! Rolls Out Corporate Portal Services
    InternetNews.com 06/26/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. Monday unleashed a major corporate portal initiative which allows companies to offer their employees content and services from the portal giant on in-house networks.

  • Lycos Gets Personal
    InternetNews.com 06/26/2000
    Following a flurry of speculation that began late last week, Lycos Inc. confirmed Monday it was acquiring MetroSplash, owner of Matchmaker.com.

  • Google Launches Super Search Engine
    InternetNews.com 06/26/2000
    In a showdown with rivals AltaVista Co. and Inktomi Corp., Google Inc. Monday rolled out what it claims is the largest search engine on the Net.

  • LibertyOne Cuts Excite Ties
    InternetNews.com 06/26/2000
    Online auction site LibertyOne has severed final ties with portal directory Excite, following a two-year effort to develop regional versions of the Excite portal.

  • Environ.com, VerticalNet Swap Marketing Opportunities
    InternetNews.com 06/26/2000
    Environmental compliance portal Environ.com and B2B network VerticalNet on Monday teamed in a deal that leverages the audience of each company.

  • Market Misses Big Picture With Inktomi
    Internet Stock Report 06/26/2000
    Investors in Inktomi should indeed be bothered by news that Yahoo! is replacing the company's search technology with that of rival Google.

  • Yahoo sheds Inktomi for new search technology
    CNET News.com 06/26/2000
    Inktomi's stock price and its reputation as the leading Internet search provider took major hits today when Yahoo said it will switch to a rival search service, but the company's bottom line may not suffer the same fate.

  • Lycos nabs Matchmaker.com parent
    CNET News.com 06/26/2000
    Lycos, the Internet search service being bought by Terra Networks, agreed to buy MetroSplash.com for $44 million in cash to add Matchmaker.com online personal ads to its network of Web sites.

  • Yahoo goes corporate with new portal push
    CNET News.com 06/26/2000
    Net giant Yahoo today launched a new program to tap the growing market for customized business portals.

  • Terra Firma
    Boston Globe 06/26/2000
    For Bob Davis, it's a case of bringing the new economy to the Old World.

  • Excite-Dow Venture Launched
    Forbes 06/26/2000
    Work.com hopes to be the premier portal used by businesspeople for industry news, information and services.

  • Portal Wars II: Mobile Operators Take on Yahoo
    Excite News 06/26/2000
    If you thought the likes of America Online and Yahoo! had the Internet portal industry pretty much sewn up, then Europe's mobile phone companies would urge you to think again.

  • Yahoo Turns to Google for Most Web Searches
    Excite News 06/26/2000
    Yahoo Inc. said on Monday that privately held search engine Google Inc. will perform its Web searches, replacing Inktomi Corp., which counted Yahoo as one of its best known clients.

  • Yahoo goes corporate
    InfoWorld 06/26/2000
    Yahoo, building on its success as an Internet portal for individual users, is now seeking to tap the business market.

  • Ex-NFL star John Elway files to sell Quepasa.com shares
    Yahoo! Finance 06/26/2000
    Retired Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway filed to sell more than 30,000 common shares of Quepasa.com Inc.

  • Oracle spotlights iPortal
    InfoWorld 06/26/2000
    Oracle on Monday took the wraps off an early-access version of its iPortal enterprise portal software, adding a new user interface and the ability to publish and integrate applications in the portal for easier use and management.

  • Yahoo names Google to replace Inktomi on searches
    SiliconValley.com 06/26/2000
    Internet media company Yahoo! Inc. said Monday that privately held search engine Google Inc. will perform most of its Web searches, replacing Inktomi Corp., which had counted Yahoo as one of its best-known clients.

  • Yahoo Goes Gaga for Google
    Wired 06/26/2000
    Out goes Inktomi and in comes Google as the default search engine for the seminal search engine from Silicon Valley. Inktomi's reaction? No biggie. The stock market's reaction? Very big biggie: Inktomi tanked.

  • Portal Plays Proliferate
    TheStandard.com 06/26/2000
    Here's breaking news (from 1997): portals are big! If you thought aggregation was a buzzword that went out with Hale-Bopp, prepare yourself for a blast from the past this week as several big players make new portal plays.

  • Portals Prefer Nasdaq to TSE for IPO Launch
    AsiaBizTech 06/26/2000
    Several major dot.coms have plans to launch initial public offers on overseas markets instead of the local Taiwan Stock Exchange Corp., due largely to tensions between China and Taiwan.

  • Ask Jeeves tips hat to advice site with investment
    CNET News.com 06/25/2000
    Online advice site EXP.com will announce tomorrow that it has raised $33 million in third-round funding from a collection of investors including Ask Jeeves.

  • Lycos Courts Matchmaker.com
    InternetNews.com 06/23/2000
    Lycos Inc. Friday reportedly made a $45 million proposal to purchase personal ad site Matchmaker.com.

  • Wells Fargo Pulls Plug on Online Home Search Tool
    InternetNews.com 06/23/2000
    Wells Fargo and Co., one of the biggest mortgage lenders in the United States, said on Friday it disconnected an online home search tool from its Web site amid charges that the tool discriminates against minority neighbourhoods and violates federal fair housing laws.

  • Lycos in Talks to Buy Matchmaker.com
    TheStandard 06/23/2000
    The $45 million deal for the personal ad site could be announced next week, company sources say.

  • Scandal Fuels Terra Stock
    NYPost.com 06/23/2000
    Terra Networks shares rocketed more than 11 percent yesterday on hopes that the $12.5 billion merger with Lycos may be scuppered by an insider trading scandal.

  • Inktomi launches Korean search site
    IDG.net 06/22/2000
    Inktomi Corp., which develops Internet navigation software has added South Korea to the ranks of its search engine users.

  • Inktomi Launches Search Operations in Korea
    Yahoo! Finance 06/22/2000
    Inktomi Extends Global Search Leadership With Korean-centric Search Capabilities.

  • Looksmart Redesigns Web Site
    Excite News 06/22/2000
    The Internet search service LookSmart Ltd. (LOOK.O) on Thursday relaunched its home page with a plainer design, and removed several features like horoscopes it said had created the misleading impression that it was a Web site for consumers.

  • Odigo adds Yahoo to its buddy list
    CNET News.com 06/22/2000
    Instant messaging start-up Odigo continues to push the envelope for interoperability between rival instant messaging products, saying today that it will connect its service with Yahoo Messenger.

  • MP3.com to work with About.com to promote online music
    CNET News.com 06/22/2000
    Online music company MP3.com is joining forces with Internet media provider About.com in an effort to increase its presence on the Web.

  • Vizzavi UK Portal to Open June 30 -Vodafone
    Excite News 06/22/2000
    The Vizzavi Internet joint venture between Vodafone and Vivendi will launch the British version of its portal on June 30 or July 1, a Vodafone spokeswoman said on Thursday.

  • Bestindiansites.com Names Rediff.com Top Indian Website
    asia.internet.com 06/22/2000
    NASDAQ-listed Rediff.com has been judged the best Indian Web site by independent site-evaluator Bestindiansites.com.

  • Telefonica chairman faces probe
    Boston Globe 06/22/2000
    The chairman of the Spanish telecommunications giant that is acquiring Internet portal Lycos Inc. is under investigation by government regulators in Madrid.

  • Intel Unit Buys Stake in Hungary's Index.hu
    Excite News 06/22/2000
    Intel's strategic investment arm, Intel Capital, has joined other foreign investors in taking a stake in Index.hu, one of the largest Internet portals in Hungary.

  • Terra Exec: Lycos Deal Goes As Planned
    Excite News 06/22/2000
    A top executive of Spanish Internet firm Terra Networks said on Thursday a friendly $12.5 billion merger with U.S. search engine Lycos Inc. -- which has so far failed to excite investors -- was on track.

  • HP, Autonomy tackle corporate portal chaos
    vnunet.com 06/22/2000
    Hewlett Packard will bundle information management technology from UK firm Autonomy with its enterprise portal software to help users better organise their portals.

  • ExciteHome Launches Excite Precision Search Service
    ComputerUser 06/22/2000
    ExciteHome, the broadband Excite service, has taken the wraps off a new search engine called Excite Precision Search (EPS).

  • The star of search engines
    Guardian Unlimited 06/22/2000
    Jerry Yang started Yahoo! as a hobby and became a billionaire by accident. Jack Schofield asks him for a few tips.

  • Upgrade gives Lycos a lift
    Inter@ctive Investor 06/22/2000
    Lycos shares rallied up 3 1/8 to 57 1/8 Thursday after Chase H&Q upgraded the Internet portal to a "strong buy" recommendation.

  • Duo takes Web searching to new plateau
    ZDNet 06/21/2000
    Two startups, Atomz.com and iPhrase Technologies Inc., are taking different tacks toward improving search services for the enterprise.

  • LookSmart: The Sleeping Giant
    ClickZ 06/21/2000
    A look at why traffic from directories yields high quality, pre-qualified leads and a review of LookSmart with its quest to lead and dominate the Internet search infrastructure realm.

  • Yahoo! Denies Suing Thai Site
    asia.internet.com 06/21/2000
    Internet giant Yahoo! denied that it had filed a lawsuit against Thai Web site Yoohhoo, the Santa Clara, California company said Wednesday.

  • Oracle the wireless portal king?
    UpsideToday 06/21/2000
    In the wireless space, many of the big players are obvious.

  • ExciteHome Launches Excite Precision Search Service
    BizReport 06/21/2000
    ExciteHome, the broadband Excite service, has taken the wraps off a new search engine called Excite Precision Search (EPS).

  • ExciteHome Launches Excite Precision Search Service
    Newsbytes 06/21/2000
    ExciteHome, the broadband Excite service, has taken the wraps off a new search engine called Excite Precision Search (EPS).

  • AsiaOne expands WAP services portal
    The Straits Times 06/21/2000
    With the expectation that the use of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services would grow among mobile phone users, SPH AsiaOne yesterday said it would enhance a portal targeted at such services.

  • Ford eyes tie-ups with Indian portals
    Business Standard 06/21/2000
    Ford Motor Company (FMC), in line with its global e-commerce thrust, is looking to enter into strategic alliances, which will also include equity partnerships, with popular Indian portals.

  • IPhrase search engines a little bit smarter
    SF Gate 06/20/2000
    Schwab to debut the new technology on investment Web site.

  • Banking portal plan aired
    InfoWorld 06/20/2000
    Chase said in early fall it will offer its customers a one-stop online financial shop, or banking portal, that will give customers access to all their financial accounts, regardless of institution.

  • iExchange.com, Lycos Create Online Investment Forum
    InternetNews.com 06/20/2000
    Investment intelligence forum iExchange.com signed a deal with Lycos to provide the Lycos Investment Channel and Quote.com with investment research and stock ideas from its "analysts" on a new co-branded site.

  • Voice Portals Struggle to Be Heard
    Fox News 06/20/2000
    Take the volumes of content available on the Internet, add the explosion in cellular phones, and it doesn't take a high-tech visionary to see the potential of a service that lets people call in to hear their stock quotes, sports scores and weather reports.

  • Deja.com Seals Financing Round
    InternetNews.com 06/20/2000
    News aggregator turned e-commerce and discussion portal Deja.com Inc. Tuesday secured $12.5 million in capital from existing investors.

  • Excite@Home offers 'Precision Search'
    ZDNet 06/20/2000
    Excite@Home, the broadband online service provider and portal, has relaunched its search engine.

  • Inktomi Breathes in new customers
    netimperative.com 06/20/2000
    Inktomi Corp, developer of internet search software, has six new European customers, two of which are from the UK: Breathe and Waysearch.

  • Inktomi Signs Six New Search Customers In Europe
    Newsbytes 06/20/2000
    Inktomi has signed up six more Web portals in Europe to its search engine partnership program.

  • Could the French boycott Yahoo!?
    Inter@ctive Week 06/20/2000
    The main plaintiff in the feud between Yahoo! and the French courts over the sale of Nazi memorabilia called Jerry Yang 'arrogant' because the Yahoo! co-founder said he will not take steps to conform to a French court order against the portal.

  • Excite offers new search tool
    IDG.net 06/19/2000
    Internet surfers attempting to navigate the increasingly tangled Web have a new tool for their searches, with Monday's rollout of the new Excite Precision Search engine from At Home, popularly known as Excite@Home.

  • Yahoo! Wants To Distribute Newspapers' Classifieds
    Editor & Publisher Online 06/19/2000
    First Content, Now Classified Ads Attract Portal's Attention.

  • Yahoo Threatens Small Thai Web Site
    Newsbytes 06/19/2000
    The plight of a little-known Thai Web site arose the ire of Thai Internet users over the weekend on reports US-based Internet directory giant Yahoo Inc. had made moves to close it down.

  • AltaVista Launches Messaging Service
    InternetNews.com 06/19/2000
    On the heels of America Online's public resistance in following an open protocol system for instant messaging, AltaVista Co., Monday unveiled an instant messaging service designed to be compatible with similar online services.

  • AltaVista enters instant messaging fray
    CNET News.com 06/19/2000
    Web portal AltaVista today launched an instant messaging product that will allow its customers to communicate with Microsoft's MSN Messenger service.

  • Lycos to hand off Net-search business
    Boston Globe 06/19/2000
    Waltham-based Lycos Inc., one of the Internet's oldest search engines, is getting out of the Web search business. It's handing off the job to a Norwegian company that promises by next year to create the world's biggest Internet index, containing a billion Web pages.

  • Yahoo! Takes Flak For Yoohhoo Suit
    InternetNews.com 06/19/2000
    Net giant Yahoo! incurred the wrath of Thai Internet users by filing a lawsuit against similarly named Thai site Yoohhoo, Thai newspaper The Nation reported Sunday.

  • A Tale of Two Portals
    Business Week 06/19/2000
    India's Rediff.com is off to a hot Nasdaq IPO, while China's Sohu.com languishes under Beijing-based uncertainty.

  • Shaky AltaVista symbolic of e-commerce weed-out
    The Arizona Daily Star 06/19/2000
    AltaVista chief executive Rod Schrock steps into his office in the hills of Palo Alto, his face bearing the strain of efforts to insulate the venerable search engine company from turmoil rocking the Internet industry.

  • Inktomi Announces Six New Search Customers Across Europe
    Yahoo! Finance 06/19/2000
    Inktomi Search Engine to Power Broad Range of Specialized Internet Portals.

  • Yahoo! Moves to Close Down Risque Thai rival, Yoohhoo
    China Times 06/19/2000
    The Internet company Yahoo! has moved to close down a Thai-owned portal for men, named Yoohhoo, which features pictures of scantily clad women and advice on sex problems, reports said Monday.

  • Excite@Home broadens search capabilities
    CNET News.com 06/19/2000
    Excite@Home today unveiled a spruced-up search engine, dubbed Excite Precision Search, which uses new technology to improve the relevance of search results.

  • Excite@Home hones its search service
    CNET News.com 06/18/2000
    Excite@Home said it plans tomorrow to introduce a spruced-up search engine, dubbed Excite Precision Search.

  • Battle of the Directories: Yahoo vs. the ODP
    Traffick.com 06/17/2000
    The Yahoo vs. Open Directory debate won't be settled with generalizations. What happens when you pit similar categories from the two directories head to head?

  • Excite Changes Look, Results
    Search Engine Watch 06/16/2000
    Excite has released a new look to its search results that also coincides with a new ranking system.

  • Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST
    Search Engine Watch 06/16/2000
    Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Search Engines
    ClickZ 06/16/2000
    Opinions on search engine optimazation services, relevancy algorithms and the latest search engine technology trends.

  • AltaVista in High Court battle with British ISP
    The Register 06/16/2000
    Further details have emerged concerning The Free Internet Group's (TFIG) High Court claim against AltaVista for alleged breach of contract.

  • Yahoo Wins, but AOL Rules
    AnchorDesk 06/16/2000

  • AltaVista exposed
    The Register 06/16/2000
    The Free Internet Group's (TFIG) High Court claim has lifted the lid on AltaVista's delayed bid to offer unmetered access to the Net earlier this year.

  • Giggo.com, Yahoo! Strengthen Alliance
    InternetNews.com 06/16/2000
    giggo.com, an online automotive financing and shopping resource, Friday expanded its ad presence on the Yahoo! network of properties.

  • Yahoo! won't remove Nazi memorabilia
    ZDNet 06/16/2000
    The co-founder of Yahoo! Inc, Jerry Yang, has rejected a French court order to stop web surfers in France gaining access to sales of Nazi memorabilia which appear on one of the web sites it hosts.

  • Worth a Look: Excite Precision Search
    About.com Web Search 06/16/2000
    Excite's new Precision Search features improved search results and a cleaner, less cluttered interface.

  • Yahoo! warns on China's near-term Internet growth
    South China Morning Post 06/15/2000
    Near-term growth prospects for mainland China's Internet development are limited, a top Asia official with leading US-based Internet portal Yahoo! has warned.

  • Schwab to adopt "natural" language search technology
    CNET News.com 06/15/2000
    Charles Schwab, the online and discount brokerage, will begin offering a "natural" English search technology this summer to make it easier for customers to find information on its Web site.

  • With Search Engines, Money Talks
    ClickZ 06/15/2000
    When search engines like FindWhat.com and GoTo.com started showing up, people at first thought "Why would I want to PAY for listings when I can get my site listed for free on every other search engine?

  • Yahoo! Prepares European Acquisition Spree
    Excite News 06/15/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. is gearing up for an "aggressive" acquisition spree in Europe to keep a step ahead of would-be Internet rivals as a wave of consolidation sweeps the industry, its co-founder said on Thursday.

  • Yahoo!'s Yang: partnerships not takeovers
    CNNfn 06/15/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang said Thursday that he would prefer to expand the world's biggest search engine through partnerships rather than buying companies outright.

  • Rediff.com initiates Indian Internet IPOs
    Redherring.com 06/15/2000
    Rediff.com made the most of its debut today on the Nasdaq.

  • AltaVista Offers Slicker Translations
    PC World 06/15/2000
    Students having difficulty with their French homework can breathe a small sigh of relief. AltaVista on Wednesday launched an updated version of its Babel Fish translation service.

  • Start-Up iPhrase Seeks To Build Smarter Search Engine
    InternetWeek 06/15/2000

  • Voice Portals Bring Web to Phones
    CNBC.com 06/15/2000
    Voice portals such as Tellme, Quack.com and BeVocal provide voice-activated, Web-like services, including stock quotes, traffic information, weather and movie tickets to people calling a 1-800 number.

  • Microsoft unveils search engine with a human touch
    Ananova 06/15/2000
    Microsoft has unveiled a new type of internet search engine - a human with a telephone.

  • When To Yahoo and When Not To - Part 2
    Traffick 06/14/2000

  • Got Traffic?
    ClickZ 06/14/2000
    Stats on the need for search engine traffic in an integrated marketing plan.

  • Inktomi Upgrades Commerce Engine
    InternetNews.com 06/14/2000
    Internet infrastructure software company Inktomi Corp. this week unveiled its Commerce Engine 3.0, upgraded to include automated merchandising, targeted opt-in e-mail marketing tools and new feature search capabilities.

  • India: The Next Frontier?
    The Internet Stock Report 06/14/2000
    Another Internet portal, are you kidding? We get tired of hearing about all of the new portals becoming available. Sure, we want options, but come on!

  • Yahoo! Is Said To Have MP3.com In Its Sites
    NYPost.com 06/14/2000
    Now that MP3.com is going legit, its next move may be to link up with megaportal Yahoo!

  • Tooling Around the Invisible Web
    About.com Web Search 06/14/2000
    These focused search tools help you find things the search engines can't see in the vast expanses of the Invisible Web.

  • Tellme, others open up the telephone Web
    CNET News.com 06/14/2000
    The "voice portal" industry is entering a new phase in its short life, trying to jump-start the young medium by giving outsiders the ability to create their own voice "Web sites" for the telephone.

  • Indian portal company Rediff enjoys strong debut
    CNNfn 06/14/2000
    The initial public offering market got a much-needed boost Wednesday as Rediff.com. India Ltd., an Internet portal focusing on India and Indians worldwide, continued the success of the India Internet sector and jumped nearly 68 percent in its market debut.

  • Jeeves asks for TBWA
    netimperative.com 06/14/2000
    Ask Jeeves, the internet search engine, has appointed ad agency TBWA GGT Simons Palmer to its estimated £10m advertising account.

  • First Thai-Language Search Engine Makes Debut
    Newsbytes 06/14/2000

  • Google Chooses Be Free-Powered Affiliate Marketing Program
    Yahoo! Finance 06/13/2000
    Be Free, Inc. today announced that it is powering the affiliate marketing program for Google, one of the fastest growing search engines on the Web.

  • 4anything.com slashes staff, obtains additional financing
    philly.com 06/13/2000
    An online search company, 4anything.com, of Wayne, laid off one-third of its staff yesterday even as its new chief executive, Stanley Greene, announced that he had obtained $11 million in additional financing.

  • BeVocal Introduces New 'Voice Portal'
    Excite News 06/13/2000
    Internet company BeVocal Inc. on Tuesday became the latest entrant into the fast-growing "voice portal" market, launching a service that delivers online content over the telephone.

  • Philippines Business Portal Now Up
    Newsbytes 06/13/2000
    Philippine-based businesses may now be able to "contact" Filipino-American businesses in the United States (US) via a portal launched in Chicago recently.

  • Rediff's U.S. IPO to Set Trend for Indian Portals
    IPO.com 06/13/2000
    India-related Internet portal Rediff.com is expected to set the benchmark for other Indian Internet firms when it makes a $75 million initial public offering in the United States later this week.

  • Austar, Chello in shopping venture with LookSmart
    Fairfax IT 06/13/2000
    Austar United Communications and Chello Broadband Australia have signed a joint agreement with LookSmart to bring online shopping to regional Australia.

  • Inktomi Snaps up Ultraseek to Enter Enterprise Market
    ComputerUser.com 06/13/2000
    Inktomi has announced plans to acquire Ultraseek Corp., a subsidiary of GO.com, itself an Internet subsidiary of Walt Disney. The deal will cost Inktomi approximately $345 million in cash and stocks.

  • Ananzi Relaunches With Infoseek
    sa.internet.com 06/13/2000
    South Africa's most popular search engine, Ananzi went live with its revamped look this morning, incorporating the international search capabilities of Infoseek.

  • Feedback aids new AltaVista model
    netimperative.com 06/13/2000
    Before launching its unmetered access package, AltaVista commissioned MORI to find out exactly what its users wanted, discovering that 90% of customers who pre-registered for the service would change to a new ISP if it gave them what they wanted.

  • New Technologies Making Searches More Thorough
    Chicago Tribune 06/12/2000
    Two new technologies could dramatically extend the reach of search sites like Yahoo! and Excite. The new technologies grew out of programs that let users search and retrieve files out of each others' computers.

  • Search Engines To Help Kids Find Way Around Net
    Chicago Tribune 06/12/2000
    A number of good Web searching tools are designed with kids in mind.

  • OnlineChoice, Lycos Form Co-Branded Site
    InternetNews.com 06/12/2000
    OnlineChoice and Lycos Inc. Monday reached a strategic agreement to launch a co-branded Web site.

  • Scoot Buys Loot, Vivendi Doubles Stake
    Excite 06/12/2000
    Internet business directory Scoot.com Plc said on Monday it had wrapped up a 189.9 million-pound ($285.7 million) deal to buy classified advertising company Loot with the backing of its partner Vivendi.

  • GO.com, eBay Launch Trading Site
    InternetNews.com 06/12/2000
    GO.com and eBay Inc. Monday unveiled the first in a series of online trading sites.

  • Network Commerce to Use Goto.com's Search Engine
    Yahoo! News 06/12/2000
    Network Commerce Inc., which helps businesses get started in Internet commerce, said on Monday that GoTo.com Inc. would pay it to place GoTo's search engine on its network of Web sites.

  • Ask Jeeves bids banner ads adieu, welcomes new method
    Inter@ctive Investor 06/12/2000
    Internet portal ask jeeves inc. has found a way to eliminate those annoying banner advertisements on Web sites and still allow advertisers to reach Web surfers.

  • Inktomi Taps AlterEgo for Wireless Portal Technology
    ComputerUser.com 06/12/2000
    A month after tapping Nokia for its wireless telecommunications technology, Inktomi has announced it is working with AlterEgo on wireless Web systems.

  • Ask Jeeves Adds New Ad Opportunities
    InternetNews.com 06/12/2000
    In a bid to better monetize its audience of twelve million unique monthly users, Ask Jeeves on Monday unveiled several new spots for sale on its pages, including big chunks of real estate on the pages returned to users with their search results.

  • Namo Interactive's search engine selected for British site
    Korea Herald 06/12/2000
    Namo Interactive Inc., a Seoul-based leading Web software developer, said yesterday that the government of Lincolnshire has selected Namo DeepSearch as the official search engine for Lincolnshire Networking.

  • E-commerce doors slam on portals
    ZDNet 06/12/2000
    Changing economics may be shifting power away from portals and to the companies that draw users to the sites.

  • Senior staff moves at AltaVista
    netimperative.com 06/11/2000
    AltaVista has appointed Michael G. Rubin, VP and general manager of e-commerce, as executive vice president of marketing and e-commerce amid a raft of senior board appointments at the company’s US headquarters.

  • New Search Engine Targets Internet Video, Audio
    Excite News 06/11/2000
    There are lots of fish in the dot-com ocean, but Singingfish.com sees a whale of an opportunity for its new search engine that hunts down video and audio clips of music, sports, movies and news on the Internet.

  • Forbes.com in Content Deal with Yahoo!
    InternetNews.com 06/09/2000
    Forbes.com signed a content agreement with Yahoo! Inc. to provide Yahoo! Finance with editorial content.

  • AltaVista Ups Cost of UK Web Deal Before Launch
    InternetNews.com 06/09/2000
    U.S. Internet company AltaVista on Friday said it was raising the price of its headline-grabbing cheap UK Internet service before its launch, claiming research showed customers would rather pay more for higher quality.

  • Disney Says Go To Search Engine
    NYPost.com 06/09/2000
    Inktomi gets a stake in the growing market for setting up search engines for corporate clients' internal use.

  • Terra holders OK Lycos pact
    Boston Globe 06/09/2000
    Shareholders of Spain's Terra Networks SA have voted to approve its plan to buy Internet portal Lycos Inc. of Waltham for about $12.5 billion in stock.

  • Andersen To Build Yahoo! Portal For North Carolina
    E-Commerce Times 06/09/2000
    The site will provide the state's citizens, businesses and employees with access to government services and a gateway to the Web.

  • Optimize THIS
    ClickZ 06/09/2000
    Obsession with the rat race of making it to the top of the search engine list.

  • Lycos Investing Runs With the Big Dogs
    PC World 06/09/2000
    You're a big, popular Web portal, making money as though you were printing it yourself.

  • Double trouble for AltaVista's UK ISP
    ZDNet 06/09/2000
    An Internet-service provider is suing portal site AltaVista Co., claiming it breached an agreement for the two companies to jointly provide flat-fee Internet access in the United Kingdom.

  • AltaVista doubles UK Net access price
    ZDNet 06/09/2000
    AltaVista Co. said Friday it was raising the price of its headline-grabbing cheap Internet service before its launch, claiming research showed customers in the United Kingdom would rather pay more for higher quality.

  • AltaVista Gains a Few Pounds
    Wired 06/09/2000
    AltaVista ups cost of British Web deal.

  • Cari Internet launches Malay search engine
    Star Online 06/09/2000
    Malay Internet surfers not well versed in English can now heave a sigh of relief with the launch of a fully Malay search engine portal, making it possible for a wider group of Malaysians to benefit from online services on the world wide web.

  • Inktomi Snaps Up Ultraseek To Enter Enterprise Market
    BizReport.com 06/09/2000
    Inktomi has announced plans to acquire Ultraseek Corp., a subsidiary of GO.com, itself an Internet subsidiary of Walt Disney. The deal will cost Inktomi approximately $345 million in cash and stocks.

  • Inktomi to buy Go.com Web searching firm
    Network World 06/09/2000
    Internet search technology vendor Inktomi has signed an agreement to buy Ultraseek, a subsidiary of Walt Disney's Internet portal, Go.com.

  • Inktomi To Acquire Ultraseek From Go.com
    SearchEngineWatch.com 06/08/2000
    Inktomi has announced that it is to acquire Ultraseek Corporation, the subsidiary of Go.com that produces search software used by web sites and companies for site-specific and Intranet searching. The acquisition is expected to close in November, Inktomi says.

  • Inktomi Lands Net Software Firm
    InternetNews.com 06/08/2000
    Search engine giant Inktomi Corp. made a major move in the enterprise market Thursday with its purchase of search software specialist Ultraseek Corp. for $344.7 million in cash and stock.

  • Norwegian Group Launches WAP Portal
    InternetNews.com 06/08/2000
    Norwegian technology group IT Media announced Thursday a new business-to-business WAP and wireless Web portal for the U.K.

  • Visual Data Service to be Featured on Yahoo!
    InternetNews.com 06/08/2000
    Visual Data Corp., which provides audio and video content for the Internet, said on Thursday it signed a deal for Internet media company Yahoo! Inc. to carry its TheFirstNews.com, an audio business news service.

  • Bidder's Edge changes eBay search after injunction
    CNET News.com 06/08/2000
    Responding to a court-ordered injunction, Bidder's Edge has modified its search of eBay.

  • IBM, Lycos Team Up To Attract SOHO Customers
    TechWeb 06/08/2000
    IBM is bundling its Aptiva E-Series personal computers with unlimited Internet access from Lycos in an effort to capture a larger share of the small-business market.

  • Gnutella-Based Engine Finds Way to Internet
    washingtonpost.com 06/08/2000
    A group of open-source developers quietly posted on the Internet last week a bare-bones search engine based on the technology behind the controversial software tool Gnutella, which lets users bypass central computing authorities and trade files directly among themselves.

  • Inktomi to Buy Ultraseek for $344 Million
    Yahoo! News 06/08/2000
    Internet infrastructure software developer Inktomi Corp. said Thursday it would pay a total of $344.7 million for Ultraseek Corp., a subsidiary of Go.com, Walt Disney's Internet business.

  • Bidder's Edge relaunches eBay search
    ZDNet 06/08/2000
    Bidder's Edge thinks it has found a way around a court ruling forbidding it from using certain search methods to list items up for auction on eBay Inc.

  • Web Portals Flexing Their Telephony Prowess
    Forbes.com 06/08/2000
    IP telephony has attracted the bigwigs of the Internet, such as AOL and Yahoo! The technology is expected to turn the telecom world upside down, but will media players be able to exploit it as a business?

  • Inktomi buys Ultraseek
    CBS.MarketWatch.com 06/08/2000
    In an effort to move into the corporate search business, Inktomi said Thursday it’s buying Ultraseek for $341 million in cash and stock.

  • Terra Shareholders Approve Lycos Buyout
    TechWeb 06/08/2000
    Terra Lycos would be the world's third-biggest Internet company and No. 1 in geographic spread with presence in 37 countries.

  • Lycos Korea ties up with world's largest auction site
    Korea Herald 06/08/2000
    Lycos Korea (www.lycos.co.kr) announced yesterday that it has formed a strategic alliance with eBay (www.ebay.com) of the United States, the world's largest virtual auction site.

  • Pay-for-Position Traffic Gets Hot
    ClickZ 06/07/2000
    Find out about two of the most popular pay-for-position search engines, plus some others.

  • Big Name Enters Small Business
    TheStandard.com 06/07/2000
    Business.com, which paid $7.5 million for its name, is now jostling for position in the crowded portal field.

  • Start-Ups Seek Better Ways to Search Web
    Excite News 06/07/2000
    Introducing TheBrain.com and Mohomine. With names like these, they could be new video games or TV shows for kids. Actually, they're Internet companies, and represent some of the latest work in the quest for a better way to find something on the Web.

  • AltaVista explores float
    New Zealand Herald 06/07/2000
    Internet portal and search engine AltaVista, which postponed its $2.8 billion initial public offering in April, is near to splitting itself in two and floating its non-American operations in Europe this year.

  • Handango, AltaVista Create Co-branded Wireless Content Channel
    InternetNews.com 06/07/2000
    Handango, a site for wireless and handheld devices, and CMGI's AltaVista teamed on Wednesday to unveil AltaVista Shopping Everywhere, to which Handango will provide downloadable software and related hardware.

  • Lycos Surges To No. 3 Among Search Engines
    BizReport.com 06/07/2000
    In 18 months, Lycos jumped from 10th place to third on the list of most-popular search engines on the Web, according to new figures from WebSideStory's StatMarket.

  • Lycos Surges To No. 3 Among Search Engines
    Newsbytes 06/06/2000
    Lycos now ranks slightly ahead of Excite and the Go Network, and behind Yahoo and Alta Vista.

  • AltaVista searches for brand strategy
    CBS.MarketWatch.com 06/06/2000
    It's the seventh-inning stretch of the Internet economy and perhaps one of the best times to reassess, re-evaluate and take hold of the momentary pause to build up a winning branding strategy.

  • MP3 firm in music-linking dispute with record industry
    CNET News.com 06/06/2000
    A little-known Internet search company has fired a legal shot over the bow of the recording industry to preserve its ability to guide Web surfers to online music files, legal and illegal.

  • AltaVista updates for Solaris OS
    netimperative.com 06/06/2000
    AltaVista has made its Search Engine 3.0 available for the Sun's Solaris 8 Operating Environment, with enhanced query processing tools that check spelling and try synonyms.

  • ClickMango partners with Ask Jeeves
    netimperative.com 06/06/2000
    Search engine Ask Jeeves has formed a strategic partnership with natural health and beauty site, Clickmango.com.

  • Search the Web -- And Users' PCs
    Wired 06/06/2000
    A typical Web search scans millions of servers, but that's nothing compared to the Web search Pointera envisions. Taking a cue from Napster, the company wants Web searching to extend to every hard disk on the network.

  • Spain's Terra in RealNames Internet Search Deal
    Fox News 06/06/2000
    Spanish Internet company Terra Networks said on Tuesday that it had reached a cooperation deal with RealNames Corp., which has developed a system to simplify Internet navigation.

  • AltaVista May Launch European IPO
    Newsbytes 06/06/2000
    Search-engine company AltaVista Co., following postponement of a much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in the US, is reportedly considering an IPO for its European operations, though the company's European press operation denied the claim.

  • AltaVista unveils free Web access details
    Silicon.com 06/06/2000

  • Are You a Hardcore Searcher?
    About.com Web Search 06/06/2000
    How much time do you spend searching? Are you satisfied with your results? Take our survey and compare your results with other power searchers.

  • A Portal That's All Business
    PC World 06/06/2000
    The new company is offering a portal specializing in business information. And, in theory at least, the only pages it points to are relevant business pages.

  • Satyam Infoway Snaps up Cricket Portal
    Newsbytes 06/06/2000
    Satyam Infoway Ltd, India's first private Internet service provider (ISP), has acquired 25 per cent equity stake in London-based Cricinfo Ltd, the owner of cricket portal Cricinfo.com, for $37.5 million.

  • Gale Full-Text Content Free on LookSmart? Well, Some of It ...
    Information Today 06/05/2000
    Information professionals may find the quantity of material actually delivered through the service to be, at least initially, a lot less than the press release leads one to believe.

  • AltaVista mulls public offering of European unit
    CNET News.com 06/05/2000
    Web portal AltaVista is considering a public offering of its European operations, though the prospect may be a long way off.

  • AltaVista: Europe Spin-Off Not in Near-Term Plan
    InternetNews.com 06/05/2000
    Internet portal and search engine AltaVista Co., which has twice postponed plans for a U.S. initial public offering, has no immediate plans to separately float its non-American operations.

  • A Portal for Pinstripes
    Newsweek 06/05/2000
    Los Angeles's eCompanies spent $7 million for a URL. Now we'll see if Business.com can deliver.

  • AltaVista free access comes to the Mac
    MacCentral Online 06/05/2000
    Today AltaVista and Lycos expanded their free Internet access program to include support for Macs. This is the first free quality dial-up Internet service for Mac users offered by a leading Internet brand, claims Katherine Eagleton, AltaVista spokesperson.

  • eCom.com, Inc. Has Acquired Esearchb2b.com Corp.
    PRNewswire 06/05/2000
    eCom.com, Inc. has acquired Esearchb2b.com Corp. Esearchb2b.com, Corp. has developed a web crawler or search engine designed to create a new Web presence and seeks to become a compelling destination portal for B2B (business to business) on the Internet for eCom.com, Inc.

  • AltaVista raises cost of unlimited offering
    Ananova 06/05/2000
    AltaVista's long-awaited unmetered ISP offering for UK web users will cost more than anticipated.

  • AltaVista to split, float European wing
    ZDNet 06/05/2000
    Internet portal and search engine AltaVista , which postponed its $2.8 billion initial public offering in April, is near to splitting itself in two and floating its non-American operations in Europe later this year, the Sunday Times reported.

  • Alta Vista sets unmetered launch date at last
    netimperative.com 06/05/2000
    AltaVista UK has finally released a launch date for its unmetered internet access service, three months after shaking up the sector by announcing plans for the service back in March.

  • Who do you think you are kidding, AltaVista?
    The Register 06/05/2000
    It may only be Monday but AltaVista has already won the brass neck award for the week.

  • AltaVista dismisses Euro spin-off report
    UpsideToday 06/05/2000
    After a report in the Sunday Times quoted senior AltaVista Europe officials as saying that CMGI-owned AltaVista was close to spinning off its European operations, a spokesman for the company told Reuters that it wasn't so.

  • FairMarket Auction Portal Arrives In UK
    Newsbytes 06/05/2000
    After two years of successful operations in the US, the Fairmarket online auction network has today opened for business in the UK.

  • Telecom Italia buys 30% of Brazilian portal Globo.com
    InternetNews.com 06/05/2000
    Telecom Italia bought 30% of the portal Globo.com, which belongs to the Organizacoes Globo, one of the biggest Latin America telecommunication conglomerates, for US$ 810 million, and plans to create a Hispanic language portal and a news provider service via WAP.

  • New technology to bring wider searches on the Net
    SiliconValley.com 06/04/2000
    When you use a search service on the Web, you'll comb through only a fraction of the data that's stored on computers connected to the Internet. It's like panning for gold in just one branch of the stream.

  • Archaic law puts Yahoo in a tangled bureaucratic maze
    SiliconValley.com 06/04/2000
    When I covered municipal government years ago, I once did a story about archaic laws still on the city's books. Though I've forgotten most of them, one sticks in memory: Cab drivers were required to keep a bale of hay in their trunks for their horses.

  • Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps
    The Search Engine Report 06/02/2000
    Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries.

  • Free Listings Gone At LookSmart
    The Search Engine Report 06/02/2000
    In mid-May, LookSmart ceased accepting free submissions to the US-edition of its directory. The company says that this is not yet a permanent move.

  • Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest
    The Search Engine Report 06/02/2000
    It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says its back.

  • More Than Just Music Search
    The Search Engine Report 06/02/2000
    Describes how to find MP3 files with tools like Napster and how these same tools may be used for other types of searching in the future.

  • Survey Reveals Search Habits
    The Search Engine Report 06/02/2000
    A study commissioned by RealNames has provided a variety of statistics related to searching, including that over 75 percent of web users use search engines to traverse the web.

  • Hoojit maflips Shoppers Search engine
    The Register 06/02/2000
    Parents: from today you could become the most popular mum and dad in the world if you register at search engine/shopping guide hoojit.com.

  • AltaVista free everything ISP goes live
    The Register 06/02/2000
    AltaVista will launch its much-hyped Net access service in Britain at the end of the month - some three weeks later than scheduled.

  • Brazil's Globo Faces Tough Ride in Pan-Regional Push
    Fox News 06/02/2000
    Brazilian Internet portal Globo.com, armed with the biggest foreign Internet investment in Latin American ever, must fight fiercely if it wants to venture out of Brazil into Spanish-speaking cyberspace, analysts said on Friday.

  • Lycos Sees Lycos-Terra Revenues Topping Yahoo
    Excite News 06/02/2000
    The chief of Internet search engine Lycos Inc. on Friday said he expects the combined revenues of Lycos and its merger partner, Spain's Terra Networks SA, to exceed the revenues of Web network powerhouse Yahoo Inc. by late 2001 or early 2002.

  • AltaVista to detail unmetered offer on Monday
    vnunet.com 06/02/2000
    AltaVista will unveil details of its unmetered internet access service on Monday, three months after it shook the market into action with its plans to scrap internet phone charges.

  • Vicinity, Northern Light Offer Geographical Search
    Information Today 06/02/2000
    Vicinity Corp., a provider of Internet-based marketing infrastructure services, and Northern Light Technology, Inc. have introduced what they say is the first geographically enabled Web-search capability. Consumers can now find virtually anything by location on the Web via Northern Light’s search engine using Vicinity’s GeoSearch technology.

  • Search Engine Connects U.S. and U.K. Small Business Owners
    Software Wire 06/02/2000
    Despite all the Internet's whiz bang technology, some of the best web search engines are still those cultivated by people. Bizperson.com is just that kind of source -- a B2B Search Engine for businesses and webmasters with the as-yet-not-done market niche of connecting U.S. and U.K small business owners and webmasters.

  • Yahoo! Everywhere Still Has to Find Its Way
    BusinessWeek 06/02/2000
    The portal's mobile service has far to go in reaping the potential of the wireless Web.

  • Latinos Prefer Mainstream Portals
    Wired 06/02/2000
    Hispanics are getting on the Web faster than any other group -- but it's not necessarily good news for the numerous U.S. Latino-oriented websites. Why? One study suggests that Latinos with Net access prefer mainstream offerings.

  • Yahoo hits the pavement with auctions promotion
    CNET News.com 06/01/2000
    Yahoo wedded sidewalks with computers today--throwing in a couple of supermodels--to put its own twist on the catch-phrase brick-and-clicks.

  • Yahoo! Near Another Buy
    InternetNews.com 06/01/2000
    On the heels of a round of private funding that raised more than $18 million, MyPlay Inc. Thursday was rumored to be near a deal to be snapped up by portal giant Yahoo!.

  • Judge sides with Yahoo in credit card dispute
    CNET News.com 06/01/2000
    Yahoo convinced a federal judge to lift a temporary restraining order barring the Internet portal from blocking the email account of a subscriber who refused to provide his credit card number.

  • Yahoo in Talks to Buy Web Music Firm Myplay
    Excite News 06/01/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. is in talks to buy Internet music service company Myplay Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.

  • Jeeves Exec Bolts for Video Startup
    NYPost.com 06/01/2000
    The question at Ask Jeeves these days is, "How long till the party's over?"

  • Softbank Gains $336 Million from Sales of Yahoo! Stake
    InternetNews.com 06/01/2000
    Leading Japanese Internet investor Softbank Corp. said on Thursday its U.S. unit had completed the sale of 3.16 million shares in Internet portal Yahoo Inc., generating a $336 million profit.

  • Ask Jeeves Moves Offline With Original Book Series
    InternetNews.com 06/01/2000
    In a move to increase customer loyalty and extend its brand reach, Ask Jeeves Inc. on Thursday announced a series of children's books, whose content is based on the questions asked on the company's Web sites.

  • Yahoo Travel Wins Performance Contest
    ZDNet 06/01/2000

  • Big Blue Picks an E-Gov Portal Partner
    BusinessWeek 06/01/2000
    IBM and ezgov.com team up as the virtual-government business consolidates.

  • Quepasa.com lays off 30, seeks buyer
    Miami Herald 06/01/2000
    As Spanish-language dot-coms struggle to cope with a discouraging stock market, a major portal for U.S. Hispanics, Quepasa.com, has fired a third of its 90 employees and is searching for a buyer or merger to keep itself going.

  • AvantGo To Deliver Yahoo Content To Mobile Devices
    Newsbytes 06/01/2000
    Privately held mobile Internet company AvantGo Inc. has agreed to deliver personalized content from Yahoo Inc. to handheld devices, the companies announced today.

  • Telecom Italia Buys 30 Pct of Brazil's Globo.com
    Excite News 06/01/2000
    Telecom Italia on Thursday became the latest European telecommunications company to bite into Brazil's burgeoning Internet business, buying a big chunk of the Internet portal run by the country's largest media group, Organizacoes Globo.

  • Study: Heavy Net users mostly search
    Inter@ctive Investor 06/01/2000
    A new study says frequent Internet users, those who spend five or more hours a week online, spend an average of 728 hours, or 30.3 days, online per year. The study, sponsored by RealNames Corp. and conducted by Berrier Associates, found that 520 of those hours online are spent searching for information.

  • Ask Jeeves President Briscoe Resigns
    Yahoo! News 06/01/2000
    Online search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. said its president and chief operating officer Ted Briscoe has resigned to become chief executive of privately-held Play Streaming Media Group.

  • Ask Jeeves Seeks E-Business Partners
    Data Communications 06/01/2000
    Companies can use Jeeves Live and Jeeves Answers to offer integrated, end-to-end customer management solutions.

  • Yahoo Tops Among Japan Net Users
    Newsbytes 06/01/2000
    Yahoo is the most popular Web site in Japan, recording 9.8 million unique visits in April for a reach of nearly 70 percent, Media Metrix Japan found in its debut Internet and digital media use report.