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  • Ask Jeeves finds answers en Espanol
    CNET News.com 08/31/2000
    Ask Jeeves unveiled plans today to launch a Spanish-language Web site in a joint venture with Univision, a Spanish-language media giant based in Los Angeles.

  • If everyone is optimizing their sites, what's the point?
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/31/2000
    If everyone is changing their keywords, meta tags, alt tags, and comment tags - at what point will this not matter?

  • Titan Subpoenas Yahoo to Give Names of Anonymous Users
    latimes.com 08/31/2000
    Company says messages with phony information posted on Web bulletin boards drove its share price down.

  • The 3G Portal
    Newsbytes 08/31/2000
    Those interested in the hot and happening world of third generation (3G) wireless services should see the 3G Portal, a database of over 1,000 links to 3G/mobile Internet information, organized into logical categories.

  • New Microsoft software aims at AOL
    CBS.MarketWatch.com 08/31/2000
    The completed version of MSN Explorer will combine Microsoft's Yahoo-like Internet content site, called MSN, with its market-leading Internet Explorer browser software.

  • Ninemsn Search Engine Delivers Target Results
    E-Media Marketer 08/30/2000
    Online advertisers will be provided with new targeted opportunities through ninemsn Search, an integrated search engine launched by Australian portal ninemsn.

  • Yahoo! and 7-Eleven partner on Slurpee promo
    Advertising Age 08/30/2000
    Yahoo! gets its own drink Labor Day weekend, when the portal teams with Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven on a promotion for its Slurpee drinks.

  • Conflict Arises in Sohu, 24/7 Asia Pact
    InternetNews.com 08/30/2000
    The meaning of the phrase "exclusive" seems to be at issue in an advertising alliance signed by China portal Sohu.com and 24/7 Media Asia last week.

  • Ask Jeeves to Feature Ticketmaster, CitySearch Content
    InternetNews.com 08/30/2000
    Links to Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch properties will receive prominent placement on question-answering search engine Ask Jeeves, the companies said Wednesday.

  • Terra Networks, Lycos barreling toward merger
    Miami Herald 08/30/2000
    Despite early skepticism from investors, one of the biggest Internet mergers, Terra Networks and Lycos, is chugging ahead toward an October completion that could affect the prospects of many struggling Spanish-language dot-coms in Miami.

  • Optimizing for Vortals
    ClickZ 08/30/2000
    As search engine optimization procedures develop, it will become increasingly important to be aware of all the demographic vortals and their submission procedures.

  • AltaVista parades new MD
    The Register 08/30/2000
    A tribute has flooded in for Andy Mitchell, the former MD of AltaVista UK and Ireland, and the man who single-handedly carried the can for the dotcom's failed brush with affordable Net access in Britain.

  • Yahoo!, Wells Fargo to use VerticalOne's financial services package
    The Nando Times 08/30/2000
    VerticalOne Corp. said Wednesday that both Yahoo! Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. have agreed to begin using its financial services package.

  • Yahoo's Stock Gets Clawed on Wall Street
    SF Gate 08/30/2000
    Optimistic appraisal barely helps revive plummeting price.

  • AltaVista UK Chief Quits After Web Access Snafu
    Excite News 08/30/2000
    The managing director of AltaVista UK, Andy Mitchell, has resigned after mistakes over the company's plans for Internet access, it said Wednesday.

  • Yahoo! In One Ear, Out the Other
    The Internet Stock Report 08/30/2000
    Lehman Brothers Equity Analyst Holly Becker succeeded in making a name for herself by taking on Yahoo! this week, one of the only remaining Teflon Internet graybeards.

  • Are You A Frustrated Searcher?
    About Web Search 08/30/2000
    Ever felt the urge to reach through your computer monitor and punch out a search engine?

  • Rediff.com ties up with BSES TeleCom
    The Hindu 08/30/2000
    Rediff.com India has signed an agreement to provide its content to BSES TeleCom's portal powersurfer.net.

  • LookSmart deal signed, sealed, but not delivered
    Fairfax IT 08/30/2000
    The ink on the long-awaited deal between home-grown Internet search directory LookSmart and Telstra is understood to have dried despite both companies insisting there is nothing to announce.

  • Upgrades spark Inktomi shares
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/30/2000
    Inktomi shares picked up 4 13/16, or 4 percent, to 124 Wednesday after a pair of brokerage firms upgraded the stock to a "buy" rating.

  • WMRC Launches Portal For Purchasing Agents
    Newsbytes 08/30/2000
    Manufacturing purchasing and supply-chain professionals now have free online access to the world’s first dedicated purchasing portal from the through the Purchasing SuperSite.

  • Searchonomics: A New Era in Human-Guided Web Search?
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 08/29/2000
    Wherewithal founders Thomas and Skinner have spent two years designing a powerful search technology which is scalable to the growth of the Internet.

  • Lehman Zaps Yahoo!
    NYPost.com 08/29/2000
    Another big dot-com reeled yesterday when Lehman Brothers Analyst Holly Becker sent blue-chip king Yahoo! into a slump by declaring the company's outlook "worrisome."

  • Another voice enters the Yahoo stock war
    Upside 08/29/2000
    One day it's "buy" the stock, the next "hold" or "sell."

  • Yahoo Shares See-Saw, Analysts Defend Stock
    Excite News 08/29/2000
    Shares of Internet media firm Yahoo Inc. see-sawed in and out of positive territory on Tuesday as Wall Street analysts stepped in to defend the company's stock after it took a beating on Monday.

  • Intershop, eNet Launch China E-commerce Portal
    Newsbytes 08/29/2000
    e-Commerce applications and software systems provider, Intershop, has joined forces with eNet Internet Technologies, a China based IT e-commerce provider to launch a vertical portal called the China IT e-Commerce Platform.

  • Portal To Best Homework Sites Launched At HomeworkSpot.com
    URLwire 08/29/2000
    HomeworkSpot.com is a free site that provides the best online K-12 homework helpers in one high-utility, educational spot.

  • Yahoo Says No To Montreal Canadiens
    Computer News Daily 08/28/2000
    Yahoo Inc., given the opportunity to buy a controlling interest in the NHL's Montreal Canadiens, turned it down last week - not because it couldn't afford it.

  • Analyst holds gloomy outlook for Yahoo
    CNET News.com 08/28/2000
    Is the worst yet to come for Yahoo?

  • Yahoo Stock Slips on Cautious Lehman Note
    Excite News 08/28/2000
    Yahoo Inc. shares fell about six percent Monday as a research note from Lehman Brothers analyst Holly Becker said the outlook for the Internet media services firm remains worrisome.

  • UK Executive at AltaVista Admits Misleading US
    siliconvalley.internet.com 08/28/2000
    A top executive at Santa Clara-based AltaVista's United Kingdom division has admitted he mislead his bosses in the United States about the company's recent "temporary" pullout from trying to establish unmetered Internet servcie in the UK.

  • LookSmart in discussions with Telstra on relationship
    Fairfax IT 08/28/2000
    Internet portal company LookSmart is in discussions with Telstra regarding a possible business relationship between the parties.

  • A Challenge to Freedom - Advanced Search Features
    MoreBusiness.com 08/28/2000
    If you use the Web, no doubt you use search engines to find what you're looking for. But how many searches have resulted in truly satisfactory (and appropriate) links?

  • GoTo Auctions Announces Channel Fusion
    StockHouse Canada 08/28/2000
    GoTo Auctions, a division of GoTo, today announced a comprehensive pilot program for ChannelFusion, a new product for companies wishing to enter the auction distribution channel.

  • Yahoo Bent on Expanding China Market Share
    People's Daily 08/28/2000
    Though admitting that China's Internet sector is not faring well because of a capital drain after the NASDAQ crash in March, senior managers at Yahoo, the world's leading Internet company, still believe that the bottom line has not changed.

  • Students choosing Web searches over the card catalog
    Mercury Center 08/26/2000
    When Sam Vanderpol, a 15-year-old sophomore at Newton North High School in the Boston suburb of Newton, has trouble with his homework, he often turns to the Web for answers.

  • Chinadotcom Axes 48 in China
    InternetNews.com 08/25/2000
    In a sharp reminder that Internet scale-backs aren't just hitting the U.S., chinadotcom Corp. Friday laid off 48 of its staff from its portal division in China as part of a consolidation move.

  • AT&T Unit, Autonomy Corp. to Develop Government Web Portal
    Adweek Online 08/25/2000
    GRC International, a unit of AT&T Corp., has selected Internet-software maker Autonomy Corp. PLC to help it build FirstGov.gov, the U.S. federal government’s Internet Web portal.

  • CMGI confident AltaVista will float
    The Register 08/25/2000
    AltaVista is still planning to float its operation despite this week's embarrassing revelation that the Net company's ISP in Britain never got off the ground.

  • Web searching from hell
    ZDNet 08/25/2000

  • Yahoo to offer encrypted email option
    CNET News.com 08/25/2000
    Yahoo plans to let its email account holders use data scrambling to protect the privacy of their messages, marking a potentially significant advance for the mainstream use of encryption.

  • Google Senses That It's Time to Grow Up
    SF Gate 08/25/2000
    Like many Internet companies these days, Google is grappling with very adult issues such as revenue and profit.

  • Las 21 taps Japanese market with powerful search engine
    Korea Herald 08/25/2000
    A local venture firm is tapping into the Japanese Internet market with a powerful, "intellectual" search engine.

  • Will Lycos Help Yahoo!?
    Fool.com 08/25/2000
    Lycos' profitability may help ease investors' minds about the viability of Yahoo!'s business model.

  • Pennsylvania gets into the portal business
    ZDNet 08/24/2000
    Pennsylvania has launched Distance Learning Exchange, a worldwide directory of e-learning courses and activities.

  • Satyam renames portal as Sify.com
    The Hindustan Times 08/24/2000
    Satyam Infoway Ltd today announced that its flagship portal Satyamonline.com has been relaunched as www.sify.com.

  • Insight On Getting Listed In Yahoo!
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/24/2000
    Yahoo! is an extremely valuable place to be listed. The problem is, it can definitely be a tough nut to crack.

  • T.K. and Sparky round out Yahoo team
    USA Today 08/24/2000
    When people think of Yahoo's go-go success, they usually credit co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo. But another dynamic duo, affectionately called T.K. and Sparky, deserve recognition.

  • Yahoo stands alone in Web wars
    USA Today 08/24/2000
    Yahoo beat the odds again last month. While shares of Amazon.com and other one-time online darlings were submerged by waves of red ink, Yahoo's stock soared on news of another record quarter.

  • AOL, Yahoo! Split Weekly Nielsen/NetRatings
    dc.internet.com 08/24/2000
    In the latest weekly Nielsen/NetRatings, America Online, Inc. properties remain the Web sites of choice for home users while Yahoo! is the top pick of office users.

  • 24/7 Media Acquires Search Engine Optimizer
    InternetNews.com 08/24/2000
    In an all-stock deal valued at close to $95 million, ad network and technology company 24/7 Media, Thursday announced its acquisition of search engine optimization company Website Results.

  • Photography Search Engine
    Newsbytes 08/24/2000
    Allthingsphoto.com is a searchable subject index devoted to photography and digital imaging.

  • China portal Sina.com discussing possible mergers
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/24/2000
    Internet portal Sina.com is talking to several Chinese startups about possible mergers or acquisitions, Sina's chief operating officer Daniel Mao said on Thursday.

  • Look Launches Streaming Portal
    InternetNews.com 08/24/2000
    Look Communications Inc. launched Looktvi.com, Canada's streaming vertical portal for high speed Internet.

  • The Source launches Online Portal
    dmusic 08/23/2000
    The notorious Hip-Hop magazine "The Source" has recently launched thesource.com, the worlds best online destination for the Hip-Hop community.

  • Sohu . . . Says portal in good health
    ChinaOnline 08/23/2000
    Sohu CEO Zhang Chaoyang said that the company had approximately US$80 million in cash that would enable it to continue independent operation.

  • Getting Listed and Staying Listed
    ClickZ 08/23/2000
    To stay listed in search engines, you must perform periodic daily, weekly and monthly maintenance.

  • Watchdog 'taken in' by Altavista
    BBC 08/23/2000
    The telecoms regulator admits taking "at face value" claims by Altavista that it could provide unlimited internet access for a one-off fee.

  • AltaVista goes wireless with Raging Search Unplugged
    Fox News 08/23/2000
    Wouldn't it be great if you could find the perfect restaurant by using your mobile phone?

  • Chinadotcom Buys Stake in 24/7 Media
    Silicon Alley News 08/23/2000
    Chinadotcom Corp. has purchased a 7 percent stake in Alley-based 24/7 Media Inc., an online advertising network.

  • Meanfiddler says Yahoo to show Reading fest
    Yahoo! Finance 08/23/2000
    Online music event broadcaster Meanfiddler.com Plc said on Wednesday Yahoo! UK & Ireland, an offshoot of the leading Net portal, would carry its live feed of this weekend's Reading rock music festival.

  • AltaVista: Is it really BT’s fault?
    It-Analysis.com 08/23/2000
    AltaVista hasn’t done itself any favours this week announcing the news that its much publicised and equally much hyped free Internet access service has failed to take flight.

  • Former AOL Executive Joins Go2's Board of Directors
    WSRN.com 08/23/2000
    Go2 Systems Inc., originator of go2, a location-based directory and information service designed for the Internet and wireless devices, has announced that former AOL President Steve Johnson has joined the company's board of directors.

  • MiracleNet.com pays you to use its Internet portal
    IDG.net 08/22/2000
    MiracleNet.com announced the launch of a full-service Internet portal that allows customers to send e-mail, surf the Web, and shop online while earn a share of the advertising revenue.

  • Yahoo! Leads Search Engine Competition
    Yahoo! News 08/22/2000
    When looking for information on the Web, more Internet users turn to Yahoo! than any other search engine, a recent nationwide poll shows.

  • Vicom Signs With VerticalNet
    InternetNews.com 08/22/2000
    Vicom Multimedia Inc. launched an e-commerce site on VerticalNet's SafetyOnline community and will market its Construction Safety Training System (CSTS) at the site for occupational safety professionals.

  • OFTEL slaps AltaVista
    The Register 08/22/2000
    Oftel today said it was disappointed that AltaVista had "put on hold" plans to introduce unmetered Net access in Britain.

  • The Actor Did It, Ask Jeeves
    New York Daily News 08/22/2000

  • Search Engines of the Future
    The Christian Science Monitor 08/22/2000

  • Lycos Asia launches Philippine portal
    The Nando Times 08/22/2000
    Singapore-based Web company Lycos Asia announced Tuesday its new Philippines portal, saying it had signed several partnerships with local content providers.

  • Euroseek Inks Six Content Agreements
    InternetNews.com 08/22/2000
    Swedish Internet company Euroseek announced Tuesday six new collaboration agreements to expand its European portals.

  • AltaVista pulls plug on UK Net access offer
    CNNfn 08/22/2000
    AltaVista made a humiliating U-turn in its plans to grab a larger slice of the British Web access market Tuesday, admitting it had not opened an account for any of the more than a quarter of a million people who responded to its much-hyped offer of unmetered access.

  • Excite@Home Seeks Expert Assistance
    InternetNews.com 08/22/2000
    Live help provider Expertcity.com got the call from Excite@Home Tuesday to serve up technical support for users at its Excite.com portal.

  • ehyou.comn to launch Indian music portal
    Australian Financial Review 08/22/2000
    The owner of Australia's number one MP3 digital music website, ehyou.com Ltd, will launch an Indian internet music portal, the company announced today.

  • Internet Search Engine Update
    Online 08/22/2000
    The past few months have seen a flurry of announcements of major size increases from several search engines. It seems that the industry as a whole is making renewed efforts to try and keep up with the growth of the Web.

  • Lycos Joins Philippine Portal Fray
    Newsbytes 08/22/2000
    In a move expected to send shockwaves through local portals, powerhouse Lycos Network on Monday inaugurated its Philippine site, bringing in a total of eight localized sites in seven countries under the Lycos Asia network.

  • Yahoo! Finance's new Ignore is bliss
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/22/2000
    Why didn't Yahoo! Finance think of this sooner?

  • Altavista: ISP's free service never existed
    BBC 08/21/2000
    Altavista UK confirms it never launched its much hyped unmetered internet access service.

  • Network Commerce Finds a Search Solution
    InternetNews.com 08/21/2000
    Verity Inc. said that e-commerce enabling company Network Commerce has signed on to use its strategic e-commerce knowledge retrieval solutions.

  • AltaVista mystery ends today
    The Register 08/21/2000
    AltaVista is to issue a statement later today confirming it has been rolling out its unmetered service since June 30 and that it has, indeed, signed up tens of thousands of users.

  • 24/7 Media Asia to Handle SOHU.com Global Online Ad Sales
    InternetNews.com 08/21/2000
    Online ad network 24/7 Media Asia will sell and serve ads for mainland Chinese portal SOHU.com despite apparent competition between the content site and the ad network's parent.

  • China's Sina.com expects to break even late 2002
    Yahoo! Finance 08/21/2000
    Chinese Web portal Sina.com Inc said on Monday it expects to break even around the second half of 2002, with the bulk of its revenues coming from online advertising.

  • Sohu.com , Chinadotcom in China ad alliance
    Yahoo! Finance 08/21/2000
    Chinadotcom Corp said on Monday its unit 24/7 Media Asia had formed a strategic alliance with competitor Sohu.com to provide online advertising placement services for Sohu.com worldwide.

  • At GoTo.com, Trying to Shed the Portal Baggage
    TheStreet.com 08/21/2000
    Boosters say the search engine-cum-ad service is being overlooked despite strong growth.

  • AltaVista's Mitchell returns to face the music
    netimperative 08/21/2000
    AltaVista UK managing director Andy Mitchell has returned from a reported three-week break and is set to talk to press about the apparent disappearance of his company’s much-vaunted unmetered internet access service.

  • Hongkong.com to Cut 40 Jobs
    Inside China Today 08/19/2000
    Internet portal hongkong.com is laying off some 40 staff, the latest of a spate of Hong Kong Internet bloodlettings, Hong Kong Cable Television and a local radio station said on Friday.

  • TeleBright Revs Up DSL Search Engine
    Commweb 08/18/2000
    The search engine has an on-screen comparison of plans offered by the DSL providers in the area designated.

  • Getting the best from search engines
    The Irish Times 08/18/2000
    The key to using a search engine is that the more relevant information you give, the more accurate will be the result of your search.

  • About.com Acquires E-Commerce Ad Network WiseAds
    InternetNews.com 08/18/2000
    Sources from content portal About.com confirmed on Friday that the company recently acquired online e-commerce advertising network WiseAds New Media.

  • AltaVista drops sales house DoubleClick
    Revolution 08/18/2000
    AltaVista is to pull its UK ad sales in-house, replacing incumbent sales house DoubleClick.

  • Portal Functionality Is The Future, Says Ovum
    Newsbytes 08/18/2000
    A report released today says that the future of online information access lies in Web portal functionality.

  • Lycos ready for next stage
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/18/2000
    Lycos posted better-than-expected sales and earnings in its fourth quarter this week, its last as an independent company.

  • Leapfrog jumps to join Chinese portal
    dbusiness.com 08/17/2000
    The smart card software developer has announced a joint venture to develop an Internet portal, www.Chinese.com, that the Chinese partners say will be comparable to Yahoo!.

  • Meta Tag and Body Text Keywords Working Together
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/17/2000
    Meta tag and copy text keywords need to work in conjunction for effective site ranking.

  • Yahoo!'s stock price - the ups and downs
    CNNfn 08/17/2000
    It's no secret that Yahoo! is a well-managed, highly profitable and ultra rapidly growing Web portal that has left its competitors in the dust.

  • Lycos CEO Eyes Buying Spree After Merger
    Fox News 08/17/2000
    Lycos Inc. Chief Executive Bob Davis said Thursday the online media network has its eyes set on a buying spree, especially after its merger with Spain's Terra Networks SA is completed.

  • India's Tata to Enter Crowded Internet Market
    Excite News 08/17/2000
    India's biggest industrial conglomerate, the Tata Group, said on Thursday it plans to offer Internet access and launch consumer portals by October in a move which could speed up consolidation in the crowded market place.

  • Lycos Answers the Call
    InternetNews.com 08/17/2000
    Lycos Inc. Thursday entered into an agreement with wireless application service provider Mobilee Inc. to develop its forthcoming voice-powered portal.

  • HP Launches E-Services Portals With Yahoo! and BroadVision
    InternetNews.com 08/17/2000
    Hewlett Packard has announced two portal solutions to further its e-services strategy, joining with Yahoo! and BroadVision.

  • Ameritrade, Portals Hold Performance High Ground
    ZDNet 08/17/2000

  • Lycos to Develop Voice Portal
    allNetDevices 08/17/2000
    Lycos says it will launch a voice portal for accessing its Web content via standard phones by the end of the year.

  • AltaVista & MusicZone To Offer Multimedia Content To Asia
    Newsbytes 08/17/2000
    MusicZone, the iMusic provider, has chosen AltaVista's Web and multimedia search services to power MusicZone's online music portal search services.

  • Yahoo! Korea Launches Community
    AsiaBizTech 08/17/2000
    Yahoo! Korea Corp. said that it launched "Yahoo! Club," which provides online communities for like-minded users, with new chat and bulletin functions.

  • Lycos to offer Evoke's Web-conferencing service
    New Jersey Online 08/17/2000
    Internet search engine company Lycos Inc. said Thursday that Evoke Communications Inc. will provide its Web conferencing and chat room service on Lycos' Web site.

  • 10 Yahoo Properties
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 08/16/2000
    Yahoo is so content rich that it was hard to pick just 10, especially when new services like PayDirect keep coming.

  • Canoe slashes payroll
    Montreal Gazette 08/16/2000
    Firing 60 of new-media unit's 225 employees will boost profit but won't hurt content, Quebecor says.

  • Infospace: Getting Better All the Time
    BusinessWeek 08/16/2000
    Its acquisition of Go2Net has improved its prospects and added to its arsenal.

  • Lycos basks in profitability
    CNNfn 08/16/2000
    You can't blame Bob Davis, Lycos' president and chief executive officer, for sporting a huge grin Wednesday, a day after the network of Web sites reported its first profitable fiscal year ever.

  • Yahoo Your Way to The White House?
    siliconvalley.internet.com 08/16/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. announced this week a chance for presidential candidates to personally address Yahoo!'s global audience with their positions on the issues and goals for the office of President of the United States of America.

  • Google's Targeted Keyword Ad Program Shows Strong Momentum
    Yahoo! Finance 08/16/2000
    Google Inc., announced today at the Jupiter Online Advertising Forum that its targeted online advertising program is delivering highly effective results for advertisers with click-through rates four times higher than the industry average for traditional banner advertising.

  • Lycos Rises on Strength of Profit Picture
    SmartMoney 08/16/2000
    Internet Media network Lycos, which agreed to be bought by Spain's Terra Networks for $12.5 billion in May, reported a quarterly pro-forma operating profit compared with a loss a year earlier, as revenues surged 89% amid growth in worldwide traffic.

  • Yahoo doesn't speak for me
    globetechnology.com 08/16/2000
    Asking people whether they are in favour of free speech seems like asking them whether they are in favour of fresh air. Of course they are. But, on closer scrutiny, the question and the assumptions that underlie free speech are not as straightforward as they appear.

  • How Deep Is the Web?
    Clickz 08/16/2000
    The web may be hundreds of times deeper than conventional search engines would have you believe.

  • AltaVista Tests Search Site For Wireless Devices
    Techweb 08/15/2000
    Search engine leader AltaVista Co. is working to keep pace with the wireless rage.

  • Survey Says Yahoo Tops Hong Kong Web Users in July
    Excite News 08/15/2000
    Locally-grown Web firms may be spending furiously to build up market share among Hong Kong Internet surfers, but by far the territory's top site among home users in July was U.S.-based Yahoo.com, according to a survey released on Tuesday by Internet tracking firm iamasia Ltd.

  • Softbank to Buy Portal Stake
    InternetNews.com 08/15/2000
    The Hong Kong-listed unit of Japan's Softbank Corp. said on Tuesday it would pay HK $18.67 million in cash for a 10 percent stake in Morningstar Asia.

  • Disney's Overseas Internet Boss Joins Start-Up Voice Portal
    InternetNews.com 08/15/2000
    Chafic Najia, managing director of GO.com International, the Internet business of the Walt Disney Company, has left to lead start-up European voice portal Vox Generation Ltd.

  • VerticalNet's chairman talks up business model, new CEO
    CNET News.com 08/15/2000
    In his first public remarks since a management restructuring in late July, VerticalNet chairman Mark Walsh showered praise on the company's new CEO--former Amazon.com president Joe Galli. He also introduced yet another online commerce acronym: S2B.

  • Iffco plans to launch farm portal
    Economic Times 08/15/2000
    In a trend-setting move that may have far reaching consequences, the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative is planning a portal in association with the Isro and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

  • Ask Jeeves Taps Into Netscape's Directory Technology
    Newsbytes 08/15/2000
    Ask Jeeves has licensed Netscape's open directory project technology for use on its natural language Web search engine services.

  • Internet Search Goes Vertical With Quiver, Inc.
    Yahoo! Finance 08/15/2000
    Quiver, an innovative new Internet search infrastructure company, today announced that three leading vertical portals will become the flagship customers for its search solution.

  • Lycos hurdles 4Q forecasts
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/15/2000
    Lycos topped analysts' estimates in its fourth quarter Tuesday, earning $13 million, or 12 cents a share, on sales of $88 million.

  • AltaVista quizzed over net access mystery
    vnunet.com 08/15/2000
    When AltaVista's UK managing director Andy Mitchell returns from his holiday next week he faces a torrent of voicemail, email and faxes all asking the same question: "Does your unmetered internet service actually exist?"

  • Scientists Baffled by Strange GoTo Phenomenon
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 08/14/2000
    Everyone wants to be GoTo's partner, but do advertisers want everyone to be GoTo's partner? Do consumers want paid search results smuggled in with regular search engine results?

  • Yahoo! wins domain name rights
    The Nando Times 08/14/2000
    U.S. Internet company Yahoo! Inc. won the rights to 40 Internet addresses in two United Nations arbitrators rulings released Monday.

  • AltaVista: the silence continues
    The Register 08/14/2000
    The scandal of silence currently being mimed by British ISP AltaVista is set to continue until next week despite assurances that someone from the e-outfit would finally explain what the heck is going on.

  • Cybersquatters ordered to give up 40 Web sites to Yahoo
    Mercury Center 08/14/2000
    A U.N. panel ruled on Monday that a Uruguay resident and another group of cybersquatters must give up 40 Internet sites containing the names of Yahoo Inc or its unit GeoCities.

  • Ask Jeeves launches category based popularity searches
    Inter@ctive Investor 08/14/2000
    Search engine firm Ask Jeeves has developed new technology that will allow it to segregate data by category, and to return results based on popularity.

  • LookSmart founders join Labor think tank
    Fairfax IT 08/14/2000
    LookSmart founders Evan Thornley and Tracey Ellery say they have no political plans, despite accepting positions with a Labor Party think tank.

  • Ask Jeeves Joins Vertical Search Market
    Silicon Valley 08/14/2000
    Jumping into the growing market for content-specific search technologies, Emeryville-based Ask Jeeves, best known for its "humanized" search portal of the same name, announced two new search-related products today at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Francisco.

  • Thomson Multimedia To Buy Music, Video Search Engine
    ComputerUser.com 08/14/2000
    The apparent willingness of the entertainment industry to target Web sites that connect Internet users with pirated music and video hasn't stopped electronics giant Thomson Multimedia from bidding for digital-media search engine Singingfish.com.

  • Saudis block Yahoo!'s clubs site
    MSNBC.com 08/14/2000
    Saudi authorities have blocked access to a site on U.S. Internet giant Yahoo! Inc.'s Web portal that contains pornographic and other offensive material, a Saudi official said.

  • Buy.com strikes major portal deals
    Revolution 08/14/2000
    E-tailer buy.com has secured a number of marketing partnerships with leading portals such as AOL and Yahoo!.

  • Self-Regulated Search Engine Standards Proposed
    ComputerUser.com 08/13/2000
    FindWhat.com has proposed a series of industry standards for the Internet advertising and search engine industries.

  • Search engines narrow their vision
    ZDNet 08/13/2000
    Search engines are starting to rev up again, motoring away from spitting out millions of Web pages and instead focusing on more specialized searches.

  • Tom.com teams with 2 Chinese sports companies
    The Nando Times 08/13/2000
    Tom.com, the Web portal owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, signed preliminary agreements Sunday with two Chinese sports-related companies to strengthen its position in the mainland's sports industry.

  • Writing Keyword-Rich Content
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/11/2000
    The tricky thing about strong search engine optimization writing is that you're serving two masters - the search engines and your audience.

  • French Judge Seeks More Advice in Yahoo Case
    Excite News 08/11/2000
    A Paris judge ordered Friday independent experts to investigate how to bar French web surfers from tapping into on-line sales of Nazi memorabilia on Web sites accessed using the giant Internet portal Yahoo.

  • Yahoo! reprieve over Nazi auctions
    BBC 08/11/2000
    A judge calls for expert advice before deciding whether to bar French surfers from visiting Yahoo! auction sites which offer Nazi memorabilia.

  • This Isn't Your Father's Search Engine
    InternetDay 08/11/2000
    Doorways, hallways, keywords, meta tags and all that other stuff you worked so hard to learn and tweak -- they're not enough in this new millenium.

  • France Vs. Yahoo: Should A Portal Be Liable?
    Techweb 08/11/2000
    France's attempts to stop its citizens accessing a Nazi memorabilia website located in the United States has shown again how nations are struggling to exercise the laws of the land in cyberspace.

  • Clock Reset in French Yahoo Nazi Sales Battle
    Yahoo! News 08/11/2000
    A Paris judge stopped the clock on Friday in a ground-breaking battle over who rules the Internet by ordering an inquiry into U.S. web giant Yahoo's claim that it cannot bar French web users from on-line Nazi memorabilia sales.

  • Two start-ups say they have answer for Yahoo in France
    Yahoo! Finance 08/11/2000
    Two North American start-up companies said they have technology that can help Internet media network Yahoo Inc comply with a French court's orders to keep French web surfers from tapping into online sales of Nazi memorabilia including SS badges and gas canisters.

  • Search-Engine Searcher Delivers the Goods
    PC World.com 08/11/2000
    I have a love/hate relationship with search engines, though it's skewed more towards hate recently.

  • Get paid to search the Web
    The Register 08/11/2000
    Espotting.com is launching a search engine that will pay users each time they make a search through its database. The company claims that it is the first such engine in Europe.

  • AOL Search-Engine Stance Could Strike Chord
    TheStandard.com 08/10/2000
    Many digital audio players offer MP3 search engines that are similar to the one AOL took down.

  • Optimizing Sites for the Open Directory Project
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/10/2000
    Understanding how to handle optimization for the ODP is especially important considering the number of search engines using its database.

  • Disney Go ex-exec gets 9 months
    CNNfn 08/10/2000
    Go Network former VP sentenced on charges of luring 13-year-old via Net.

  • Yahoo Braces for French Nazi Memorabilia Ruling
    Excite News 08/10/2000
    Yahoo! Inc faces a potentially ground-breaking "web war" ruling Friday in a Paris court where anti-racist groups want huge fines imposed unless Yahoo blocks online sales of Nazi memorabilia.

  • AOL dumps its MP3 search engine
    ZDNet 08/10/2000
    America Online Inc. said that it would take down a controversial new search engine that for the past month has allowed Internet users to locate music files in the popular MP3 file format, including pirated versions of songs, on the Web.

  • Scour hires top gun lawyers for defense
    ZDNet 08/10/2000
    Scour Inc. Wednesday said it hired high-profile lawyers to defend it in a lawsuit filed against it by the movie and recording industries who claim its search engine facilitates online film and music piracy.

  • Specialized Search Engines Carve Out Niches
    Techweb 08/10/2000
    Dozens of new search companies are trying to carve out a niche for themselves.

  • AltaVista: the farce continues
    The Register 08/10/2000
    Three people have come forward to say that they have been using AltaVista's British-based unmetered Net access service in the UK.

  • Yahoo! HK matches rivals with launch of cybermall
    South China Morning Post 08/09/2000
    Yahoo! Hong Kong, hoping to match the electronic commerce capabilities of rival Internet portals such as Hongkong.com, has launched a Chinese-language cybermall on its site, in conjunction with 18 independent merchants.

  • Excite Canada, Expedia Offer Canadians Online Travel Service
    InternetNews.com 08/09/2000
    Excite Canada and Expedia are offering a new service which allows Excite.ca users to book air, hotel and car reservations as well as access travel-related news and information.

  • AltaVista puts brakes on DoubleClick ads
    CNET News.com 08/09/2000
    AltaVista, an Internet search service, said it's selling its own advertising in the United States, taking the sales from Internet ad company DoubleClick.

  • The Directory Listing Advantage
    Clickz 08/09/2000
    Internet directories are becoming more and more popular. Find out how to get listed in the directories that count.

  • Next50.Com Launches Web Site, ISP And Network Portal For Seniors
    URLwire 08/09/2000
    Launched by DWC Web Corp., Next50.com offers an easy to use resource with an abundance of news, information, products and services tailored to the needs and interests of older adults.

  • Chinadotcom cash loss widens but revs grow 52 percent
    Yahoo! Finance 08/09/2000
    Asian Internet firm Chinadotcom Corp. said on Wednesday its second-quarter cash operating loss widened from the first quarter but was smaller than some analysts had expected, while total revenues grew 52 percent even as the industry faces consolidation.

  • Nordstrom.com Selects AltaVista Search Engine
    InternetNews.com 08/09/2000
    Nordstrom.com signed an agreement with AltaVista Business Solutions allowing the department store e-commerce site to employ AltaVista Search Engine 3.0 to let customers search for products.

  • AltaVista, DoubleClick Restructure Contract
    AtNewYork 08/09/2000
    For years, one of the biggest questions about DoubleClick concerned the possibility of its losing AltaVista as a client.

  • AltaVista user sighted
    The Register 08/09/2000
    In a shock overnight development a reader has contacted The Register to say she has received a password and user ID from British-based unmetered ISP, AltaVista.

  • BESTeDEAL Acquires Chinese Search Engine
    AtNewYork 08/09/2000
    While human rights and democracy activists were cringing about the Clinton administration granting Most-Favored Nation trading status to China, Kenneth Chen was licking his chops.

  • New web portal to benefit rural India
    The Hindu 08/08/2000
    A commercial Internet portal to connect rural India to the rest of the world and create economic opportunities to thousands of rural people is getting ready for launch.

  • Looksmart Extends its Reach with New Portal Parterships
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 08/08/2000
    It is succeeding where others have failed by hiring out its editorial staff to portal partners such as iWon, Altavista, and Time Warner. Could a deal with AOL be far off?

  • What You're Searching For
    About Web Search 08/08/2000
    What do people search for? Here are the most popular search terms from visitors to the Web search site.

  • Yahoo!, eBay scuttle sale of list
    ZDNet 08/08/2000
    eBay Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. shut down auctions for a mailing list of 200,000 U.S. investors, citing concerns that personal information about people on the roster could be disclosed.

  • EU OK's First Air Industry B2B Portal
    Newsbytes 08/08/2000
    In an unexpected and precedent-setting move, the European Union (EU) has given the thumbs up to a new business-to-business (B2B) aerospace portal.

  • AltaVista spooked by ghost service
    The Register 08/08/2000
    AltaVista has refused to provide any proof that its much-hyped unmetered access product - announced in March - is anything more than a phantom service.

  • CMGI may buy an ISP for AltaVista
    CNET News.com 08/08/2000
    Investment company CMGI today said it is mulling takeovers of European Web companies such as Internet service providers that would help it drive extra visitors to its portal AltaVista.

  • AOL-backed WAP Portal To Open
    allNetDevices 08/08/2000
    A new European Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) portal partially owned by AOL Europe is ready to launch.

  • Gates open for India search engine
    The Hindustan Times 08/08/2000
    After a prolonged spell of dotcom boredom, Indian cyberspace is bustling with activity following the announcement by Microsoft of its plan to launch an India-specific search engine in its silver-jubilee year.

  • Ask Jeeves Names Klein President, Replacing Briscoe
    Bloomberg.com UK 08/08/2000
    Ask Jeeves Inc., an Internet question-and-answer service, said it hired former Hasbro Inc. executive Adam Klein as president to replace Ted Briscoe, who resigned in May.

  • LookSmart moves to soothe disquiet
    Fairfax IT 08/08/2000
    LookSmart chief executive Evan Thornley is in damage-control mode as low staff morale and the resurfacing of allegations about his brother-in-law cast a shadow over the company's financial performance.

  • Yahoo Japan Sets New Fees for Demographic Targeted Ads
    AsiaBizTech 08/08/2000
    Yahoo Japan Corp. plans to institute new advertising fees for demographically targeted Internet ads.

  • AltaVista, Redband In Content Deal
    InternetNews.com 08/07/2000
    Redband Broadcasting Monday announced the launch of their new content relationship with Internet portal AltaVista. AltaVista now offers Redband's news, talk and entertainment programming.

  • Sheridan Reserve, I-Storm Develop Golf Portal
    InternetNews.com 08/07/2000
    Sheridan Reserve Inc. acquired exclusive e-commerce rights to develop the golf portal and e-retail spin off Nevadabobs.com, with other domain registrations worldwide, excluding the United Kingdom and Europe.

  • Mexico's Todito portal says U.S. alliance near
    SV.com 08/07/2000
    Todito.com, a Mexican Internet portal aimed at Spanish speakers throughout North America, could be poised to break into the lucrative market north of the border in as little as two weeks if talks with a possible U.S. partner pan out.

  • China Portal Sohu.com Expects Profits in 2003
    Excite News 08/07/2000
    Chinese Internet firm Sohu.com Inc. said on Monday it expects to become profitable in 2003 and will stick with developing its core Web portal business despite flagging investor confidence in the model.

  • Record labels warming up to portals
    CNET News.com 08/07/2000
    As major record labels slowly open their music vaults for online distribution of their songs, Web portals are flirting with entertainment companies for access to their coveted hits.

  • IntraNet Solutions in deal with Yahoo!
    Yahoo! Finance 08/07/2000
    IntraNet Solutions Inc., a supplier of Web content management solutions, said on Monday it signed an agreement Internet portal Yahoo! Inc. to provide file viewing technology for e-mail.

  • Go2Net acquisition a plus for InfoSpace, analyst contends
    Seattle Times 08/06/2000

  • Webmaster Portal, 24/7 Media Strike Advertising Deal
    InternetNews.com 08/04/2000
    SearchHound.com Inc. a portal for Web masters, announced Friday that it has struck a deal with Internet ad company 24/7 Media, Inc., under which 24/7 will sell advertising for the site, and add it to its network.

  • Salient Information launches financial portal
    thestar.com.my 08/04/2000
    A portal with 11 participating financial institutions has been launched for individual and corporate customers seeking banking services and financial products.

  • Time-Sensitive Content and Search Engines
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/04/2000
    How to handle the problem of getting time-sensitive content indexed regularly by the search engines.

  • Search Engines and Politicans
    About Web Search 08/04/2000
    Vote smart: Use these search tips to find the best sites covering politicians their campaigns.

  • AltaVista ISP in pointless queue-jumping exercise
    The Register 08/04/2000
    AltaVista has denied it is misleading people over the introduction of a new time-limited flat-fee Net access package.

  • Merrill Lynch: India Web Portal, ISP Shakeout Seen
    Excite News 08/04/2000
    Negative investor confidence is expected to hit the fund-raising plans of many Indian tech companies, especially those crowding the dot-com landscape, Merrill Lynch's head of Asia-Pacific Internet research said.

  • Apple anti-leak action shifts to Yahoo!
    The Register 08/04/2000
    Apple's quest for the source of leaked information about upcoming products has taken it to Yahoo!

  • Nielsen Says Yahoo! Top Singapore Web Site in June
    Excite News 08/04/2000
    Yahoo! was the top Web site in Singapore for June, said Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet audience measurement service on Friday.

  • Columbus sails out Deja's door
    CNET News.com 08/04/2000
    Rumor has it that Columbus was ousted after only three months on the job.

  • Calfax's stake in adventureeportal.com
    The Hindu 08/04/2000
    Colfax International of the U. S. has picked up 50 per cent equity stake in adventureeportal.com, a portal to promote adventure sports and eco-tourism in India.

  • Network Solutions to Offer Search Engine Inclusion
    ComputerUser.com 08/04/2000
    New Web site owners could see increased traffic as the result of an agreement between Internet registrar Network Solutions Inc. (NSI) and Inktomi Corp.

  • Microsoft Site Allies With GoTo.com
    Adweek Online 08/04/2000
    GoTo.com and bCentral.com, a Seattle-based small business portal from Microsoft Corp., on Wednesday announced a two-year agreement that makes GoTo the sole pay-per-click search engine for bCentral's base of more than 1 million members.

  • Search-Engine Company Claims Traffic Piracy
    Commweb 08/03/2000
    FindWhat.com, which charges advertisers that want to be included in search findings, claims that competitor and market leader GoTo.com has employed a third search engine to pirate traffic from FindWhat.com.

  • Go2Net Unveils Syncronex Co-Branded Private Label Portal
    Search Engine Guide 08/03/2000
    Custom portal solution provides Syncronex users and corporate customers premium, branded gateway to the Internet.

  • Getting Dynamically Generated Websites Indexed
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 08/03/2000
    It is true that it is very difficult, if not impossible to get some dynamically generated websites indexed by the major search engines.

  • October is target for Lycos deal
    Boston Globe 08/03/2000
    Spain's Telefonica SA yesterday said it expects to complete by mid-September a $2 billion rights offering to help in its pending purchase of the Internet portal Lycos Inc. of Waltham.

  • Go.com Takes New Name
    Variety.com 08/03/2000
    Go.com on Wednesday announced a net loss of $52.6 million for its fiscal third quarter and gave a glimpse at its evolving Internet strategy by renaming itself as the Walt Disney Internet Group.

  • Yahoo Keeps Top Performance Spot
    ZDNet 08/03/2000
    This week, Keynote tested the leading sites over a T1/T3 connection.

  • AltaVista Intros New Search Tools
    Newsbytes 08/03/2000
    AltaVista has souped up the range of search facilities available to users of its various search engine portals.

  • Qantas to establish Internet portal
    thestar.com.my 08/03/2000
    Qantas Airways Ltd plans to establish an Internet portal intended to maximise the commercial benefit of its 2.5 million-member frequent flyer programme, the Australian Financial Review reported.

  • UK phone retailer launches Wap portal
    EO News 08/03/2000
    UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse will this week begin rolling out its Mviva Wap portal across Europe – with the help of AOL Europe and Agency.com.

  • Now, It's The Vectories That Are Coming!
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    New services are emerging that offer to automatically categorize web pages into Yahoo-like directories.

  • Ask Jeeves Adds Directory, Direct Hit Results
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    Ask Jeeves has redesigned its home page and search results page.

  • iWon Expands Search Offerings
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    Over the past three months, iWon has been adding new search resources to its site.

  • LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings.

  • Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year.

  • AltaVista Redesigns, Again
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    AltaVista has once again undertaken another major redesign of its service, the fourth in less than a year.

  • Google Gains More Features
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    The folks at Google have been busy, adding a new advanced search page, a preferences page, dictionary links and a Korean-language version.

  • Breaking The News Barrier
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    Moreover and Yahoo go a step beyond ordinary news search engines, because they pick up headlines from subject-oriented sites that even news search engines may miss.

  • Invisible Web Gets Deeper
    The Search Engine Report 08/02/2000
    A new study estimates that the inaccessible part of the web is about 500 times larger than what search engines already provide access to.

  • Go.com increases its loss with site revamp costs
    CNET News.com 08/02/2000
    Go.com, the Internet unit of Walt Disney, said its loss widened in the fiscal third quarter as the company spent heavily to redesign its Go.com directory as well as launch and expand other Web sites.

  • Searchbutton.com and Go2Net Integrate Products to Offer Complete Search Solution
    Search Engine Guide 08/02/2000
    Go2Net signs on as a Searchbutton reseller, making site search available to HyperMart Network businesses

  • AltaVista Unveils Entertainment Search Center
    Traffick 08/02/2000
    AltaVista has taken the wraps off an extensive entertainment search center in hopes of drawing what has proven to be an enormous audience for online music and video.

  • Search Engine Models of the Future
    ClickZ 08/02/2000
    Researchers of web infrastructure have proposed new models, but do these models have a chance against the current indexing system that's so widely accepted by the Internet culture?

  • Livewire: for Hire: Someone to Browse When You Can't
    Excite News 08/02/2000
    iNetNow relies on plain old human beings to listen to questions, search and deliver answers.

  • Yahoo! Tops on Web, eBay 'Stickiest'
    E-Commerce Times 08/02/2000
    The leading global Web site in June was Yahoo!, but eBay kept visitors the longest, according to the "Global Internet Index" from the Nielsen/NetRatings audience and measurement analysis service.

  • QXL in Euro-distribution pact with Lycos
    TheStandard.com 08/02/2000
    With the spectre of eBay looming, the British-based online auctioneer is shoring up its defenses.

  • Listen.com Japan in Multifaceted Launch
    InternetNews.com 08/02/2000
    Listen.com and Trans Cosmos Inc., Wednesday launched Listen Japan KK, a search and directory service for legal online music in Japan.

  • Terra remains bullish on Lycos deal
    CNNfn 08/02/2000
    Spanish Web service provider Terra Networks said Wednesday it will close its $8.83 billion (9.66 billion) acquisition of U.S. Web portal Lycos by the end of October, brushing aside concerns raised by investors, who already have shaved 30 percent off the deal's value.

  • AltaVista retools its search engine
    The Nando Times 08/02/2000
    Internet search engine operator AltaVista Co. is still trying to find its identity, but CEO Rod Schrock thinks the company's long quest for profits is nearly over.

  • AltaVista Revamps
    InternetNews.com 08/02/2000
    The new design is geared to providing a streamlined interface with one-click access to customized search centers, power searching and an email and tools section.

  • Tata Cellular pact with Indiainfo.com
    The Hindu 08/02/2000
    Tata Cellular has announced its alliance with Indiainfo.com, India's premier portal network, enabling the online purchase of Tata Celluclar's prepaid cell card service `freedom'.

  • GoTo.com to provide searches for Microsoft's BCentral
    CBS.MarketWatch.com 08/02/2000
    GoTo.com on Wednesday said it would provide search services to BCentral, Microsoft's small business portal, for two years.

  • AltaVista Searches For New Identity
    Forbes.com 08/02/2000
    A public offering has been tabled, but it looks like AltaVista's return to its search roots could pay off.

  • LookSmart Looking Smarter, Maybe Wealthier Too
    Newsbytes 08/02/2000
    Australian-controlled Internet directory service LookSmart should turn an operating profit by the second quarter of 2001.

  • Lycos, ABCNews.com, offer live coverage of national conventions
    Advertising Age 08/02/2000
    ABCNews.com named Lycos TV, an online multichannel video network, to air ABCNews.com's live coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions.

  • AltaVista amps up navigation, entertainment services
    CNET News.com 08/01/2000
    AltaVista is trying to one-up rival Internet portals with the launch of new services, as Napster-like technology is being used to create a powerful search engine.

  • AltaVista Returns To Its Search Roots
    Techweb 08/01/2000
    AltaVista has redesigned its portal, putting its search capabilities front and center.

  • Nielsen: Yahoo Top Draw On Net Worldwide
    Newsbytes 08/01/2000
    Yahoo showed the largest unique audience and greatest number of page views during June with a high rate of repeat visits, the ratings service said today.

  • VerticalNet's new CEO brings lessons from Amazon
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 08/01/2000
    He left the Internet retailer last week to become the top executive of a lesser-known company, Horsham, Pa.-based VerticalNet, a company that creates business-to-business Internet marketplaces.

  • MSN Leapfrogs Yahoo, Now UK No. 1 on Net
    Excite News 08/01/2000
    Microsoft's MSN overtook Yahoo in June to become Britain's most visited Internet domain, latest figures showed Tuesday.

  • Ernst & Young Secures E-Business with Portal Launch
    InternetNews.com 08/01/2000
    Services accessible via the portal include over 1000 security related resources, online services such as the management of viruses, vulnerabilities and configurations, and managed services like network scanning, intrusion detection and virus alert notification.

  • U.S. to Receive Gift That Keeps on Searching
    SF Gate 08/01/2000
    Inktomi exec to create federal database for free.

  • Yahoo!, Greece's OTE Telecoms Team Up
    Excite News 08/01/2000
    reece's OTE Telecoms said it signed an formal agreement with Yahoo! to provide its mobile phone and Internet customers access to Yahoo! services.

  • Quepasa, singer redo deal
    azcentral.com 08/01/2000
    Quespasa.com won't have to pay Gloria Estefan for promotional work because the singer cancelled her U.S. tour.

  • Yahoo! Helps Make Payments Personal
    Fool.com 08/01/2000
    As part of its strategy to be "the world's largest enabler of online transactions," Yahoo! announced on Monday the launch of Yahoo! PayDirect, a person-to-person payment service.

  • Telefonica and Terra Move Ahead With Acquisition of Lycos
    PRNewswire 08/01/2000
    Telefonica and Terra continue to carry out the necessary procedures to finalize the acquisition of Lycos by Terra.

  • Yahoo, others gain domain names from U.N. rulings
    CNET News.com 08/01/2000
    U.N. arbitrators decided in favor of Yahoo, Microsoft, AT&T and Japan Tobacco in a series of rulings on "cybersquatting" disputes released today.

  • Optixlab in venture to develop portals
    thestar.com.my 08/01/2000
    OPTIXLAB Sdn Bhd, the Renong group's new technology incubator unit, has entered into an agreement with several parties to form a joint-venture company specialising in Internet portal development.