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  • Ask Jeeves launches shopping channel
    Revolution 10/31/2000
    Ask Jeeves has partnered with auction site eBay and request-quote service QM4 for its new shopping channel.

  • U.S. Portals May Face Just Three European Rivals
    InternetNews.com 10/31/2000
    Only three home-bred European Internet portals will be able to compete successfully with American rivals America Online and Yahoo, according to a research report by Forrester Research.

  • Yahoo! Elects to Cover Politics
    InternetNews.com 10/31/2000
    Throwing its hat into a ring already crowded with political sites, Yahoo! Inc. launched an Election News Hub, offering visitors a one-stop-shop for political info from the local to the presidential level.

  • Top Portals in Europe Will Choke the Rest
    InternetNews.com 10/31/2000
    At research company Forrester they're calling it "Europe's Portal Squeeze" -- the phenomenon in which Web traffic is favoring the top few portals at the expense of all the others.

  • Primedia Takes About.com Offline
    Internet Stock Report 10/31/2000
    The offline magazine publisher figured sprinkling a dash of dot-com zip to its business model might give its stock a little get-up-and-go. But following the announcement of the proposed deal, investors got up and went.

  • MSN Unveils Interactive Banners
    InternetNews.com 10/31/2000
    Microsoft's MSN portal is rolling out several new banner ad technologies to attract advertisers and, it said, to deliver greater control and creative flexibility to online marketers.

  • Primedia-About Merger: Is Niche Nice?
    TheStandard 10/31/2000
    Attention pregnant women, car enthusiasts and cat lovers: Have we got a merger for you. At least that's what magazine publisher Primedia, specialty portal About, and most of the media had to say about the deal that would merge the two niche-masters.

  • Portals in China Fight Sinking Expectations
    TheStandard 10/31/2000
    It isn't easy being a Chinese portal. One of China's top Internet portals has reported a narrowing of losses; another, a rise in sales. But the stock prices of Sohu.com and Netease.com have been hammered, and even results that generally beat analysts' predictions won't give them much lift.

  • El Sitio joins new company
    Miami Herald 10/31/2000
    Rather than being swallowed up by a competitor as was rumored late last week, Latin portal El Sitio is being merged with a group of television, broadcast and radio properties to create a new media company, Claxson Interactive Group.

  • Lernout & Hauspie launches voice portal products
    InfoWorld.com 10/31/2000
    Lernout & Hauspie has struck an alliance with SimplySay, to use the company's technology in a range of applications that will allow users to access information on the Internet vocally, in multiple languages, using a phone.

  • Ask Jeeves: This Butler Keeps on Tickin'
    ZDNet 10/31/2000
    Ask Jeeves' percentage of referral traffic has made a healthy rise in one year, going from 0.02% to 1.58%, according to new data from WebSideStory's StatMarket.

  • VerticalNet chief says e-commerce is booming
    UpsideToday 10/31/2000
    VerticalNet is taking steps to shore up its b-to-b e-commerce credentials.

  • Investors Dump Primedia on Web Portal Buy
    NYPost.com 10/31/2000
    Primedia shares plummeted yesterday, as investors gave an emphatic thumbs-down to the company's announced $690 million acquisition of Web portal About, Inc.

  • Primedia to Purchase About
    InternetNews.com 10/30/2000
    Offline magazine publisher Primedia said it will buy About, Inc. in a $690 million all-stock deal, forming what the companies say will be one of the largest on- and offline media companies and touting its combined opportunities for marketers.

  • Don't Limit Your Placement Potential
    InternetDay 10/30/2000
    Sometimes all the search engine placement talk seems silly. Afterall, most people do searches on only the top 3 or maybe five engines, so why bother worrying about placement on the other engines?

  • AltaVista shames cybersquatter
    The Register 10/30/2000
    A cybersquatter was today ordered to hand over 43 domain names containing variations of the AltaVista name.

  • Primedia buys About.com
    CNNfn 10/30/2000
    Primedia Inc. agreed to acquire About.com Inc. Monday for $690 million in stock in a move that would combine a traditional magazine publisher with an Internet portal.

  • China Portals Eye Growth, But Stock Outlook Grim
    Fox News 10/30/2000
    Chinese Web portal firms Sohu.com and Netease.com are likely to report a rise in quarterly sales this week, but analysts said on Monday they saw no signs of near-term recovery for the firms' tubercular stock prices.

  • Phonetic Unveils Voice-Powered Search
    boston.internet.com 10/30/2000
    Phonetic Systems Inc., a privately held Burlington company that makes speech-enabled technology, has released what it's calling the Internet's first voice-activated search engine.

  • Qwest to turn on wireless voice portal
    CNET News.com 10/30/2000
    Qwest Communications International said Monday it would offer Weblike voice-portal access over its wireless phone service, becoming the first of the big mobile carriers to turn on this type of feature.

  • So Long, Lycos -- Hola, Terra Lycos
    Fool.com 10/30/2000
    Its merger now complete, will the new Terra Lycos be a more formidable competitor?

  • Today's Tipple - Findsame.com
    Free Pint 10/27/2000
    Findsame is a search tool which aims to search for documents similar to a specified one.

  • Optimizing Your Site With Doorway Pages
    SearchEngines.com at Search Engine Guide 10/27/2000
    Doorway pages are specially optimized pages for one search engine and 1-3 keywords. Companies use doorway pages to achieve higher search engine rankings by giving each search engine what it wants.

  • Approval of Lycos buyout seen
    Boston.com 10/27/2000
    Shareholders are expected to vote Waltham-based Internet portal Lycos Inc. out of existence today, but you wouldn't know it from the company's ongoing marketing blitz.

  • Spain's Terra falls ahead of Lycos merger vote
    Boston.com 10/27/2000
    Shares in Spanish Internet firm Terra Networks tumbled on Friday to their lowest level since their flotation ahead of the expected approval of Terra's takeover of Lycos Inc.

  • Shareholders: Terra Lycos, Full Steam Ahead
    boston.internet.com 10/27/2000
    Shareholders of Lycos Inc. overwhelmingly approved the Waltham portal's merger with Spanish Internet service provider Terra Networks S.A.

  • GO.com Launches New Site, Ad Campaign
    InternetNews.com 10/27/2000
    Joining GoTo.com in an effort to find a means of survival in a crowded portal market, GO.com unveiled a sizable revamping of its Web portal this month; and now it's kicking off a major ad campaign to support the new image.

  • GoTo Snaps Up Directory Tech Firm to Boost Search Results Ads
    InternetNews.com 10/27/2000
    GoTo said Thursday that is has acquired Hawaii-based startup SearchUP, which provides search engine pay-for-placement technology.

  • Alta Vista habla espanol
    bizjournals.com 10/27/2000
    The Internet search engine AltaVista says it's now in Spain with a service devoted to Spanish Web pages.

  • Optimization Questions: Keywords, Free Hosts, & Links
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/26/2000
    Three search engine optimization questions this week regarding keyword frequency, free hosting services, and external links.

  • 360 Powered Corp. Presents Search Solutions to Asian Corporations
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/26/2000
    Seattle-based 360 Powered Corporation today announced that the company will present its breakthrough Push-Indexing™ technology to 45 CEOs from the Pacific Rim.

  • GoTo to Change Name, Rebrand
    InternetNews.com 10/26/2000
    GoTo, which began life as a pay-for-placement portal, said Friday that a name change will be the final step in transforming and rebranding itself as an e-business services company.

  • Cisneros Group to Acquire El Sitio
    miami.internet.com 10/26/2000
    Cisneros Television Group is in the final round of negotiations to acquire the Latin American internet portal company El Sitio, Inc.

  • Digex Launches Interactive Portal
    InternetNews.com 10/26/2000
    Digex Wednesday unveiled myDigex, a new interactive client portal providing resource monitoring and management, advanced provisioning features.

  • Lycos seems on firm ground with Terra merger
    BostonHerald.com 10/26/2000
    Lycos Inc. shareholders are set to vote on the Waltham-based Internet company's merger with Spain's Terra Networks SA tomorrow, ending a long journey to corporate unity and creating what could become a global Internet powerhouse.

  • Link Popularity Is Not Your Only Linking Goal
    ClickZ 10/26/2000
    There is more to being popular than scoring high in link popularity.

  • Spain's Terra says losses deepened in Q3
    Yahoo! Finance 10/26/2000
    Spanish Internet company Terra Networks -- whose takeover of U.S. search engine Lycos Inc. faces a key vote on Friday -- said on Thursday it made a EBITDA loss of 102 million euros in the third quarter.

  • Oingo Analyzes Domain Names, Announces New Technology
    ResearchBuzz 10/26/2000
    Relevance engine Oingo has done some domain name analysis and come up with interesting conclusions.

  • Goto buys SearchUP, seeks new identity
    ZDII 10/26/2000
    GoTo.com Inc. said Thursday it is buying privately-held Internet service company SearchUP Inc. and searching for a new corporate identity.

  • AltaVista won't resurrect unmetered plans
    uk.internet.com 10/26/2000
    AltaVista has ruled out any possibility that it may try to re-enter the unmetered internet space, following the embarrassing no-show of its planned service in August.

  • Search Engine Ranking Confessions
    BizWeb2000 10/26/2000
    Search engine ranking. How important is it really?

  • Yahoo! taxis cruise around Brazil
    USA Today 10/26/2000
    Diane Mallagoli accesses the Internet in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from the back of a Yahoo!-enabled taxi.

  • The search for... NFL Fan Sites
    The search for... at Search Engine Guide 10/25/2000
    The Football Search Engine at Footballsites.com is a must visit search tool if you are seeking NFL fan sites.

  • Microsoft Steps up MSN's Fight to Rule the Net
    InternetNews.com 10/25/2000
    Microsoft beefed up its MSN Internet portals on Wednesday and said it was going on the offensive to try and make MSN the world's dominant online brand.

  • Warburg Pincus Shuns China Portals
    Yahoo! Finance 10/25/2000
    U.S. investment firm Warburg Pincus is avoiding Internet portals aimed at China, partly because of political sensitivities, Managing Director Sun Chang said on Wednesday.

  • InfoSpace Profit Rises, Lifted by Go2Net Purchase
    Excite News 10/25/2000
    InfoSpace Inc., which syndicates content to Internet and wireless companies, on Wednesday posted a quarterly profit that more than tripled as the benefits of its purchase of Go2Net and its portfolio of Web sites kicked in.

  • Terra-Lycos Merger Will Create Net Giant
    Excite News 10/25/2000
    The takeover by Terra Networks of U.S. portal Lycos Inc., expected to given shareholder approval this week, will see the Spanish company leap into the global Internet major league.

  • Finding the Keywords That Will Help Customers Find You
    ClickZ 10/25/2000
    Strategy for finding keywords and key phrases most likely to drive targeted traffic to a site.

  • Search Us, Says Google
    Technology Review 10/25/2000
    Can't find it on the Web? The Google guys came up with a better way to sift through a billion Web pages - a stack of documents 100 kilometers high - in less than a second. As a result, they're the hottest search engine around.

  • Yahoo's market dominance is forcing rivals to refocus
    SV.com 10/24/2000
    The great Internet portal war is officially over and a winner has been declared. Yahoo Inc. of Santa Clara has pulled so far ahead of its rivals in this market that many of them have, in effect, raised the flag of surrender.

  • Surfers Get the Low Down on Web Sites
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/24/2000
    Intending to provide surfers with a unique online experience, 7MetaSearch.com announces the addition of One-Click Site Details to its free browser-based search tool, FaSSt Search.

  • VerticalNet Q3 loss smaller than expected
    InternetNews.com 10/24/2000
    VerticalNet Inc. Tuesday reported a third-quarter loss far short of Wall Street's forecasts on revenue more than 14 fold over the same period last year and 38 percent above the second quarter.

  • NBCi Taps DCLK
    InternetNews.com 10/24/2000
    NBC Internet, Inc., Tuesday said it will serve all of its ads using DoubleClick's DART for Publishers outsourced technology.

  • Excite 3Q profits meets Street estimates
    CNNfn 10/24/2000
    Internet access company Excite@Home posted on Tuesday a third-quarter loss that matched Wall Street expectations, amid strong growth in subscribers to its high-speed service.

  • The Word at Yahoo! Yikes!
    BusinessWeek 10/24/2000
    So what can Yahoo do to stem the slide? In the short term, probably not much.

  • Ask Jeeves Says CFO Resigns
    Yahoo! News 10/24/2000
    Ask Jeeves Inc., a provider of question answering technologies and services, said on Tuesday that Tom Low resigned as chief financial officer.

  • GoTo Auctions Launches ChannelFusion Network
    ecommerce business 10/24/2000
    GoTo Auctions, a division of GoTo.com, Inc. launched the ChannelFusion Network, a partner program that enables consumer auction sites and B2B exchanges to drive auction listings and targeted sellers to their auction markets.

  • Yahoo!, iMix.com to Customize CDs
    eV 10/24/2000
    Yahoo! has pacted with iMix.com to offer customized compact discs to Netizens who use the portal's e-commerce services.

  • AltaVista UK appoints new head
    Revolution 10/24/2000
    AltaVista has made Stephanie Himoff head of its UK operation.

  • New site promises to take the 'legwork' out of web searches
    Ananova 10/24/2000
    Web users accustomed to the frustration of unsuccessful searches are the target audience of a new UK website.

  • Google Announces AdWords Keyword Advertising Program
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/23/2000
    Google's AdWords program offers every business a fully automated, comprehensive and quick way to start an online advertising campaign.

  • Why Search Engine Marketing Works
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/23/2000
    Marketing separates success from failure for many online ventures. Search engines and directories are perennial favorites. You can create your own authoritative image with a bit of extra attention to search engine promotion.

  • HP, VerticalNet join forces on b-to-b marketplaces
    Infoworld.com 10/23/2000
    Targeting a more collaborative, flexible business-to-business e-commerce platform, Hewlett-Packard and VerticalNet on Monday unveiled their road map for the development of next-generation business solutions based on technology from both companies.

  • IFILM shifts strategy, hopes to become portal
    The Nando Times 10/23/2000
    Late last year, the company decided to abandon its original strategy of featuring original short films and become a portal, linking viewers to films on other sites and offering its own magazine-style features.

  • Voice Portals Clearly Have a Ways to Go
    SF Gate 10/23/2000
    A day without traditional access to Internet ends up a long one.

  • ‘Person-to-person’ search engine opens in UK
    netimperative 10/23/2000
    Questico has added a human touch to the internet today by launching what it claims is Europe’s first ‘people-to-people’ search engine network.

  • Dialpad.com Reborn Internet Portal Site
    KoreaTimes 10/23/2000
    In a bid to overcome the profit limitations in the Internet telephony market, the largest Korean free Web-based phone company is likely to restructure its business model to become a comprehensive e-commerce site.

  • Factiva Launches Web Portal for Searchers
    Information Today 10/23/2000
    Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company, has initiated a new Web portal service designed to serve information professionals.

  • Today's Tipple - WebTop Search
    Free Pint 10/20/2000
    A review of the WebTop search engine.

  • Don't Count AltaVista Out Yet
    Forbes.com 10/20/2000
    AltaVista's bid to become a portal years after America Online and Yahoo! established their supremacy in that arena was ill-conceived. But that doesn't mean the much-maligned site should be written off altogether.

  • Rejected for Too Many Super Duper Pooper Scoopers?!
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/20/2000
    It's hard to concentrate on "keyphrase density" when five different gurus are recommending five different methods.

  • Yahoo asks investors for patience
    BBC News 10/20/2000
    Tim Koogle, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, the world's most-visited internet portal asks investors to take the long view

  • AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft Keep Top Web Site Spots
    Excite News 10/20/2000
    America Online Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. kept their spots as the top U.S. Internet sites in September while sports sites saw increased traffic, Jupiter Media Metrix said in a report Friday.

  • Altavista boss resigns
    BBC News 10/20/2000
    Rod Schrock, the chief executive of US internet portal Altavista, resigns with the company just months away from flotation.

  • Spedia Nabs About.com Deal
    InternetNews.com 10/20/2000
    About.com this week announced an ad-sponsored, pay-for-surfing loyalty program.

  • AltaVista CEO quits
    BostonHerald.com 10/20/2000
    Shelved IPO, strategy change mark Schrock's rocky tenure.

  • Yahoo Launches Mobile Commerce Services
    BizReport.com 10/20/2000
    Yahoo has launched itself with gusto into the world of m-commerce, unveiling a PayDirect service for person-to-person e-payments, as well as local sales, for mobile localized information on local bricks and mortar stores offering special deals.

  • 2 or 3 Word Phrases? Commas, or Not?
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/19/2000
    When optimizing, is a two word phrase better than a three word phrase? Should commas be used in the meta keword tag?

  • Is it 'About' Time For a Yahoo! Deal?
    AtNewYork 10/19/2000
    Could Yahoo! be on the verge of acquiring Silicon Alley content portal About.com or is another public relations ploy working its way through the rumor mill?

  • Yahoo! Ups the Ante on M-Commerce
    InternetNews.com 10/19/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. upped its ante in the much-contested mobile-commerce fray, delivering Yahoo! PayDirect and Yahoo! Local Sales on Internet-enabled mobile phones in the United States.

  • AltaVista CEO steps down
    CNET News.com 10/19/2000
    CMGI-owned search engine AltaVista said Thursday that its chief executive, Rod Schrock, had resigned.

  • GoTo Heads For U.K. With Freeserve
    Adweek 10/19/2000
    Freeserve, the largest U.K. Internet service provider, has selected GoTo as its default search service.

  • Analysts expect flat growth from China's Sina.com
    Yahoo! Finance 10/19/2000
    Chinese Internet portal Sina.com is likely to report flat revenue growth in its quarterly report on Thursday, analysts said.

  • New search gives biz a ClearSight
    ZDNet 10/18/2000
    ClearForest's new text-mining search tool reads large amounts of unstructured documents, extracts structured information, and delivers it in simple visual formats.

  • Can Expert Advice Services Break Free from Schlock?
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/18/2000
    In the emerging online-pay-for-expertise category, available services range from frivolous to professional. The same goes for the free services. Recently released Yahoo! Experts leans toward the frivolous side... not that there's anything wrong with that.

  • Internet Promotions Untangles the Web
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/18/2000
    Internet Promotions has launched www.iprom.co.uk, "Your Guide to the best of the Internet".

  • The search for... Free Software
    The search for... at Search Engine Guide 10/18/2000
    Visit the CFS directory to find information on freeware and search for quality freeware programs

  • Create User Loyalty by Improving Search Capability
    ClickZ 10/18/2000
    Your e-commerce site can turn one-time shoppers into loyal, repeat customers when you help online buyers find exactly what they're looking for.

  • Yahoo cuts deal for custom CDs
    CNET News.com 10/18/2000
    Yahoo Shopping on Tuesday signed a deal with online entertainment provider Imix.com to offer consumers the ability to create custom CDs.

  • Yahoo! Canada Launches One-Stop Internet Shopping Service
    InternetNews.com 10/18/2000
    Yahoo! Canada has launched a safe and secure one-stop Internet shopping service that allows consumers to browse, buy, order and ship more than two million products and hundreds of major brands from leading Canadian merchants, all from a single Canadian Web location.

  • Old hands seen surviving Latam Internet carnage
    Yahoo! Finance 10/18/2000
    Internet companies are starting to drop like flies in Latin America, but a handful of home-grown cyberfirms and foreign goliaths are gaining ground amid the carnage. The question is, which ones?

  • Lycos Europe to strengthen ties with Bertelsmann
    The Nando Times 10/18/2000
    Lycos Europe said Wednesday it plans to strengthen its already successful alliance with the German media giant Bertelsmann.

  • LookSmart looks to the future
    AFR 10/18/2000
    Frustrated by his belief that LookSmart is misunderstood here and even more so back home, where commentators are writing it off while it is still on track to meet its financial projections and turn a profit early next year.

  • Does E-Commerce Need Search Engines?
    E-Commerce Times 10/18/2000
    That's right, when it comes to the Internet of the future, search engines will no longer be 800-pound gorillas guarding the doors like big scary bouncers. They'll be more like dinosaurs, gone but not forgotten remnants of an earlier age.

  • Wireless Portals, ASPs Face Tough Road Ahead
    Cyberatlas 10/18/2000
    Mobile portals and wireless Application Service Providers (ASPs) will find it difficult to dominate the mobile Internet services market in the same way that their fixed-line brethren such as Yahoo! and AOL have done, according to a report by Analysys.

  • Recent Changes to Google
    iBoost 10/18/2000
    On Monday, Google debuted some major changes. What exactly are these new changes, and how will they affect you?

  • Altavista launches Irish search site
    Electric News 10/18/2000
    Search engine Altavista, which is in negotiations with the IDA, launched its dedicated Irish search site www.altavista.ie on Wednesday as part of a USD25 million world-wide investment.

  • Lycos Jumps On New Akamai Service
    InternetNews.com 10/18/2000
    Akamai Technologies, Inc. Wednesday announced that Lycos, Inc. has signed on as the charter customer for Akamai's new dynamic page delivery service, EdgeSuite -- a full-site content delivery solution for e-businesses.

  • Get Ready, Get Set, Go.com
    InternetNews.com 10/17/2000
    Walt Disney Internet Group Tuesday relaunched its Go.com Web search service.

  • Canada.com, AvantGo Target Palm OS, CE Devices
    InternetNews.com 10/17/2000
    Canada.com has inked an agreement with mobile Internet company AvantGo to offer mobile users of handheld devices access to the canada.com portal at no extra cost.

  • Knight Ridder combines news site into city guides
    CNET News.com 10/17/2000
    Newspaper publisher Knight Ridder said Tuesday it has folded the Web site of the San Jose Mercury News into its BayArea.com local Web guide, a move that consolidates some of its top Web holdings.

  • Terra, Lycos Agree on Final Merger Terms
    TheStandard.com 10/17/2000
    The stock swap between the Spanish telco and the U.S. company would create a new global portal.

  • WebLink, Yahoo to sell two-way pagers
    Dallas Morning News 10/17/2000
    WebLink Wireless Inc. of Dallas and Yahoo Inc. will jointly sell a two-way pager that will feature e-mail and instant messaging, the companies said Monday.

  • WebCrawler Creeps Out of the Race
    ZDNet 10/17/2000
    Its "search referral" percentage is at an all-time low of 0.42%.

  • Citibank, Indian Portal Launch Online Credit 'Card'
    Excite News 10/17/2000
    Internet portal Indiainfoline.com and Citibank NA have launched India's first co-branded online credit card in association with MasterCard International, the bank said on Tuesday.

  • NBCi to Merge AllBusiness Unit with Bigvine
    Fox News 10/17/2000
    NBC Internet Inc. said on Tuesday it will merge its AllBusiness.com unit with Bigvine Inc. to create a new business-to-business company to focus on the domestic consumer Internet market and move toward profitability sooner.

  • B&N, Yahoo! Aim to 'Net Readers
    NYPost.com 10/17/2000
    Taking a clue from Kmart, Barnes & Noble is giving free Internet access to its customers.

  • Billion-Dollar MSN Blitz On For Oct. 25
    TechWeb 10/17/2000
    Microsoft will launch $1 billion marketing and ad blitz for MSN October 25 with local events in 16 cities coast to coast.

  • Disney Internet Re-Launches Go.com
    Forbes.com 10/17/2000
    The Walt Disney Internet Group has re-launched its new Go.com Web search service.

  • Google Gets Paid Links, Quotes and More Languages
    The Search Engine Report 10/16/2000
    Google has debuted a new self-serve paid links program, while also adding more language search support and a feature that allows you to locate stock quotes.

  • FAST Claims Biggest; So Does Google
    The Search Engine Report 10/16/2000
    FAST Search announced that its size has increased to 575 million indexed pages, making it the largest search engine on the web. Well, at least tied for first. Google also says it now has indexed at least that many pages.

  • Terra to Offer 2.15 Shares for Each in Lycos
    Excite News 10/16/2000
    Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica said on Monday its Internet arm Terra Networks would offer 2.15 shares for every share in U.S. search engine Lycos Inc. as part of its plan to create the world's third biggest Internet company.

  • Just 'About' a Deal
    InternetNews.com 10/16/2000
    About Inc. signed a deal with Styleclick Inc. to be the exclusive mass provider of brand name merchandise from its supplier network on About's vertical network of 700 topic sites.

  • internet.com Launches New Sites
    InternetNews.com 10/16/2000
    internet.com Corp., the Internet Industry Portal, Monday launched two new Web sites to keep Netizens up-to-date of the latest news and information.

  • Open-Market-Style Search Engine, Search123, Launches
    Yahoo! Finance 10/16/2000
    Search123, a new pay-per-click search engine, launched today with a refined and advanced version of the pay-for-performance advertising model that will bring the online advertising and marketing industry closer to its focus on revenue generation, return on investment and the acquisition of qualified customers.

  • China Net Users Seek Better Search Engines
    Inside China 10/16/2000
    While the overwhelming majority of Chinese Internet surfers use search engines, they aren’t exactly thrilled with the results, complaining of dead links, repetition, irrelevant information and slow speeds.

  • Yahoo! offers online shoppers insurance from Lloyds of London
    CNNfn 10/16/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. on Monday began offering its online shoppers coverage from insurance carrier Lloyds of London, which the Internet portal hopes will provide some "peace of mind" to its shoppers.

  • Yahoo! To Offer Purchase Protection
    Mercury Center 10/15/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. is launching new initiatives that protect purchases made on its auction and shopping sites.

  • Today's Tipple - One2Seek Meta Search Engine
    Free Pint 10/13/2000
    A review of the One2Seek meta search engine.

  • Search, and you shall find...
    Search Engine Guide 10/13/2000
    Search engines, web directories, portals and metasearch engines travel different paths to Internet search success.

  • Google Wins Wired Readers Raves Award
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/13/2000
    Google search engine recognized as most intelligent agent on the Internet.

  • Crosswalk.com Reports Strong 3rd Quarter Growth
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/13/2000
    Crosswalk.com today reported strong growth in average monthly pageviews, unique audience size, email newsletter impressions and registered users for the quarter ended September 30, 2000.

  • Yahoo!'s Finance - Whither the Net's Floundering Flagship?
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/13/2000
    Yahoo! is on solid ground, but it'll have to grow its way to a double-digit price-to-earnings ratio before it's taken seriously again by the street. A major part of the strategy will have to be Yahoo! Broadcast.

  • Boo.com Comes Back From The Dead As A Portal
    TechWeb 10/13/2000
    Boo is back, with a difference. Fashionmall.com, owners of the Boo.com brand since the pan-European fashion retailer’s high-profile collapse, is to relaunch the site as a portal.

  • Scoot.com Signs Deal with VivendiNet's Ad Sales Agency
    InternetNews.com 10/13/2000
    Scoot.com plc announced Friday it has signed a three-year sales agreement with VivendiNet's new European ad sales agency Ad2-one.

  • What $12 Billion? Lycos Set for Half-Price Swap
    boston.internet.com 10/13/2000
    Shares of Terra Networks of Spain have slipped so low that Lycos stockholders are likely to recieve less than half of the $12.5 billion in value they'd hoped for when the companies' merger deal was announced in May.

  • CMG Information's Wetherell sees AltaVista Europe profit
    CBS.MarketWatch.com 10/13/2000
    The head of Internet holding company CMG Information Services, popularly known as CMGI, defended his company's streak of acquisitions and predicted a profit for its AltaVista Europe unit by December or January.

  • tom.com portal buying into China outdoor media concern
    thestar.com.my 10/13/2000
    tom.com Ltd, the Internal portal controlled by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing, has signed a framework agreement to buy 49% or more of the equity interest in Kunming French Star Information Industry Co Ltd for HK$262.84mil.

  • Reversal of fortune unkind to Yahoo!
    ZDII 10/13/2000
    Nothing better illustrates the panic and uncertainty surrounding technology stocks these days than Yahoo!'s unceremonious slide to a 52-week low this week despite topping analysts' sales and earnings estimates in its third quarter.

  • InfoSpace and Go2Net Complete Merger
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/12/2000
    InfoSpace, Inc. and Go2Net, Inc. announced the completion of their merger.

  • No Meta Tags A Secret Guru Thing?
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/12/2000
    I've often said that if you have good text, you *almost* don't have to worry about your tags, and now I have proof!

  • Yahoo Japan First-Half Current Profit Surges
    InternetNews.com 10/12/2000
    Yahoo Japan Corp , Japan's top Internet portal, on Thursday reported its operating profit more than tripled in the April-September half, as advertising revenue nearly doubled.

  • InfoSpace founder knows no boundaries
    MSNBC.com 10/12/2000
    On the verge of completing his company's biggest acquisition, the $1.5 billion purchase of Go2Net, the InfoSpace chairman and founder sees the deal as just one more step on a road to inevitable dominance.

  • Biz-Zone helps vortals narrow Web searches
    globetechnology.com 10/12/2000
    Julie King believes that her new Internet search engine will find a niche in the world of vortals -- vertical market Web portals.

  • Lippo launches Internet portal
    The Jakarta Post 10/12/2000
    Lippo Online chief executive officer Hari Sulistyono expressed confidence that Lippostar.com would become Indonesia's number one Internet portal.

  • New portal strikes gold in niche
    The Australian 10/12/2000
    Fledgling web portal Scape, a $40 million joint venture between Village Roadshow and Channel Ten, has struck marketing deals with Vodafone and Mastercard.

  • Yahoo promotes its own stock plunge on messenger
    CNET News.com 10/11/2000
    Yahoo found itself the subject of a little-known personalization feature Wednesday, automatically notifying its own customers of a precipitous 21 percent drop in its stock price.

  • Search Engines Look for New Revenue Streams
    ClickZ 10/11/2000
    Search engines are beginning to look at web marketers as potential clients and customers that can help monetize their business rather than as passive recipients of traffic from search engines.

  • Yahoo Shares Fall Sharply After Earnings
    Excite News 10/11/2000
    Yahoo Inc. shares lost more than 20 percent of their value on Wednesday in reaction to the company's third quarter earnings, which exceeded expectations, but also raised new concerns about the company's outlook.

  • Lycos Gives Users a Mouthpiece
    InternetNews.com 10/11/2000
    Lycos Inc. Wednesday unleashed its long-ago-announced voice portal in five major locations.

  • Search-engine primer
    postnet.com 10/11/2000
    I make my living finding information for journalists at the Post-Dispatch and training other people to find information. A lot of information comes from resources available to everyone on the World Wide Web.

  • Yahoo!'s Earnings: A Reprieve for Net Advertising
    BusinessWeek 10/11/2000
    The megaportal's solid numbers are giving the online-content sector a needed boost, but will the rebound last for long?

  • About.com to Roll Out Pay-For-Surfing Program
    InternetNews.com 10/11/2000
    Less than a week after pay-for-surfing company mValue closed its doors permanently, About.com said this week that it has brought in a company to launch what is essentially a pay-to-surf proposition of its own.

  • Ads Boost Yahoo's Earnings
    washingtonpost.com 10/11/2000
    Yahoo Inc., the biggest Internet search service, said third-quarter profit more than quadrupled as it signed its biggest advertisers to higher-priced and longer-term contracts.

  • Portals compete in phone access
    BostonHerald.com 10/11/2000
    Waltham-based Lycos Inc. is firing back at Yahoo! Inc., its big brother in the Internet portal wars, by rolling out a system that uses voice recognition software to give users telephone access to the Internet.

  • Yahoo will likely remain a market leader
    CNET News.com 10/11/2000
    Yahoo raised some concerns on Wall Street with its third-quarter earnings report when it didn't blow away earning expectations, as usual, and beat estimates by only 6 percent.

  • How AltaVista Lost Its Way by Trying to Be a Media Brand
    Inside 10/10/2000
    In the beginning, AltaVista was the fastest search engine on the block, with great buzz among the Internet's core users -- those who spent virtually the entire day online at work.

  • Web-Diggers Puts Searching the Web Tutorial Online for Free
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/10/2000
    The second edition of the tutorial "Searching the Web", support to the Web-Diggers training program, can be downloaded for free on the young Belgian company's site.

  • Lycos Enters Online Music Pact with Bertelsmann
    Excite News 10/10/2000
    Online media network Lycos Inc. said on Tuesday its Lycos Music Internet site has begun selling digital downloads of music by Santana, Christina Aguilera and other BMG Entertainment recording artists.

  • Net2Phone, Yahoo! Make Connection
    InternetNews.com 10/10/2000
    Net2Phone Inc., a provider of voice services to IP networks, now offers telephone and voice access to the Yahoo! network of properties.

  • SpeechWorks gets Yahoo contract
    Boston Globe 10/10/2000
    Web megaportal Yahoo Inc. is announcing today it has tapped SpeechWorks International of Boston to develop a telephone-based service for Yahoo subscribers to hear their e-mail and other Internet content read to them.

  • Will It Be Yahoo or Boo-Hoo?
    Wired 10/10/2000
    Flagging Internet stocks will get either a boost or another kick in the pants Tuesday afternoon when Yahoo reports earnings for its most recent quarter.

  • Yahoo! partners with Net2Phone
    CNNfn 10/10/2000
    Yahoo! Inc., facing increased scrutiny over its ability to sustain strong growth, will unveil a group of new voice-based services Tuesday that could help it extend its user base and capture new revenue streams.

  • AltaVista resumes its search
    Fairfax IT 10/10/2000
    Alta Vista has dropped its plans to join the crowded ranks of Internet portal builders and turned to "doing what we do best, searching the Web," says Vesey Crichton, the big search-engine company's international marketing director.

  • Advertising Seen As Key To Yahoo Earnings
    Techweb 10/10/2000
    Yahoo’s advertising revenue will come under scrutiny when the company releases its third-quarter earnings for 2000.

  • Today's Tipple - Pub Quiz - Ask Jeeves Versus xrefer
    Free Pint 10/09/2000
    To ‘test’ the engines I took the questions and inputted keywords from them (xrefer is not designed to take full, natural language questions, whereas Ask Jeeves can take keywords), to see which tool would serve you best in a quiz.

  • All change for search technology?
    Free Pint 10/09/2000
    If you thought you were just getting a grip on the whole web searching/search engine registration issue, think again. Technology is being developed which insiders believe may have the ability to turn the whole searching model on its head.

  • Terra-Lycos deal on track
    CNNfn 10/09/2000
    Web portal Lycos Inc. on Monday said it expects to seal its merger deal with Spanish Internet service provider Terra Networks by the end of this month.

  • Yahoo! offers service with 'expert' advice
    CNN.com 10/09/2000
    New service has plenty of advice to offer, but you never know where it's coming from.

  • Crunch Time for Latin Portals
    Miami Herald 10/09/2000
    A year ago, Latin Internet portals were talking about branding, having first-mover advantage and raising more money from investors. Now the talk is about cutting costs and profitability.

  • VerticalNet gets bullish outlook
    CNET News.com 10/09/2000
    Despite a barrage of criticism last week from competitors and Wall Street, several analysts Monday emphasized their bullish outlook for business-to-business e-commerce company VerticalNet.

  • Market Thinks Again On Yahoo
    Techweb 10/09/2000
    Yahoo Inc. may be the best of the bunch in the Internet media business, but people are not sure what that counts for anymore.

  • Yahoo! Inks New Licensing Deals
    ZDNet 10/09/2000
    Yahoo! Inc. announced Monday it is beefing up its corporate portal business with separate enterprise services agreements with Honeywell, Applied Materials, Inc., Intellinex, an eLearning Venture of Ernst & Young LLP, and TCW Group.

  • Visa ... It's Everywhere on Yahoo!
    InternetNews.com 10/09/2000
    Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Visa U.S.A. signed a deal expanding its marketing relationship with Yahoo! to become the preferred and default payment card on Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Wallet.

  • Excite Satisfies with Efficient Site
    ZDNet 10/09/2000
    What's your portal of choice? If efficiency matters, it should be Excite, the ease-of-use champ, according to new data from WebCriteria.

  • A Crucial Season For Portals
    SF Gate 10/09/2000
    Earnings reports due as investors flee troubled tech.

  • Directory For Parents Launches
    siliconvalley.internet.com 10/09/2000
    Any parent knows traveling with children isn't always a vacation, but San Francisco-based GoCityKids wants to make it a little easier, or at least bearable.

  • U.S. Internet search engines click abroad
    USA Today 10/09/2000
    Search-engine companies that plunged into the portal market to tepid ratings may want to consider a return to their roots.

  • CMGI Supports Lycos-Terra Networks Merger
    Excite News 10/09/2000
    Internet operator and investor CMGI Inc. said on Monday it has agreed to vote all of its 10 percent stake in Lycos Inc. to support its merger with Spanish Internet company Terra Networks.

  • Long faces await Yahoo! earnings
    MSNBC.com 10/09/2000
    Here's the good news about Yahoo!: when the Internet's leading portal reports third quarter earnings Tuesday, it's almost certain to meet or beat Wall Street's expectations - as Yahoo! CEO Tim Koogle himself pretty much acknowledged in an interview on CNBC last month.

  • Context Providers Add Texture to your Surf
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/06/2000
    These tools aim to embed needed background information into online documents, making the web a richer place and cutting down on search time.

  • Increase Your Word Count for More Keyphrases
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/06/2000
    If you limit yourself to 75 words on your home page, how are you going to write for all those keyphrases and still create a strong marketing pitch?

  • Seven Dumb Things You Can Ask Jeeves
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/06/2000
    As we've noted in the past, Ask Jeeves! is not as clever as he looks; nor is he a search engine that will help you with every problem. Still, we need to give the old codger his due.

  • Microsoft gearing up for MSN relaunch
    ZDNet 10/06/2000
    Software giant will formally relaunch its portal with new and upgraded services at a 'big event' late this month in New York, say sources.

  • Ask Jeeves Edges Out Google, Freeserve and Sportal
    Yahoo! Finance 10/06/2000
    Ask Jeeves, Inc. today announced that Ask Jeeves UK's Web property, Ask.co.uk, was named "Best Portal" in the Future Publishing UK Internet Awards ceremony held recently in London's Natural History Museum.

  • C-SPAN And Virage Launch Wireless Presidential Debate Video Search Engine
    Videography Online 10/06/2000
    Virage, Inc. announces that it has teamed with C-SPAN to bring television coverage of the Campaign 2000 presidential debates to the Internet and to handheld wireless PDAs.

  • Ask Jeeves to field BT queries
    Revolution 10/06/2000
    Telecoms giant BT has hired Ask Jeeves to help customers at BT.com with questions about services.

  • India’s first search engine for children launched
    Expressindia.com 10/06/2000
    A child-safe search engine, indianchild.com guides children to sites considered safe for kids.

  • DoubleClick signs AltaVista in Australia
    E-Media Marketer 10/06/2000
    Internet advertising solutions company DoubleClick Media Australia has been appointed as the exclusive advertising partner to AltaVista Australia, which launched locally this week.

  • Yahoo! wins 50 domain names from alleged cybersquatter
    SV.com 10/06/2000
    U.S. Internet giant Yahoo! Inc. won 50 domain names, many of them based on misspellings of its trademarks, in a ruling Friday under a U.N. arbitration procedure designed to curb "cybersquatting."

  • Lycos Asia (Hong Kong) teams up with e-finet.com
    SINA.com 10/06/2000
    Lycos Asia (Hong Kong) launched an interactive, co-branded financial Web site with Hong Kong financial content applications provider and portal operator CN-Markets' e-finet.com.

  • One Yahoo! Listing? Don't Try for Two
    Rank Write at Search Engine Guide 10/05/2000
    Where Yahoo! is concerned, if you have a listing that gets traffic, you're probably better off to leave well enough alone. Submitting an additional sub-page could cause problems.

  • Golden Telecom Launches Russian Internet Portal
    Excite News 10/05/2000
    Golden Telecom Internet Services Director Cliff Gauntlett said the redesigned portal (www.online.ru) of its Russia-On-Line brand resulted from last year's decision to target the Internet.

  • Inktomi Wants To Be The Wintel Of The Internet
    Forbes.com 10/05/2000
    CEO David Peterschmidt says he wants to make Inktomi as relevant to the Internet as Microsoft and Intel are to the PC. The company's performance over the last 18 months suggests he's doing just that.

  • NBCi: Can This Peacock Fly?
    Fortune 10/05/2000
    The network relaunches its portal, but it still wobbles.

  • iWon.com: Eyes on the Prize
    Fortune 10/05/2000
    An upstart Internet portal grabs market share with a shockingly simple idea: running a sweepstakes.

  • AltaVista launches Australian site to capture net surfers
    Fairfax IT 10/05/2000
    United States Internet search firm AltaVista has launched a new Australian Internet search engine to capture a share of the booming local Internet search market.

  • LookSmart moves quickly on alliances
    The Age 10/05/2000
    Internet directory service LookSmart has continued to roll out fresh strategic alliances, yesterday unveiling a hook-up with Excite, a British fashion website and a global search engine.

  • GuruNet Unveils New Web Answer Engine
    Yahoo! Finance 10/05/2000
    Starting today, web users have even easier access to answers and information via the new GuruNet Answer Engine(TM) web site at www.gurunet.com and through enhanced GuruNet One-Click 2.0 for Windows software.

  • KPNQwest for FAST search
    netimperative 10/05/2000
    KPNQwest and search technology developers Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), have formed a three-year alliance that will see KPNQwest provide hosting facilities and bandwidth for FAST, and resell FAST web and intranet search tools as part of hosting services offered in 20 KPNQwest CyberCentres across Europe.

  • PepeSearch Implements New Search Solution, Deploys New Site Layout
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/04/2000
    Portal company PepeSearch announced today that the search service offered on its US portal site (www.pepesearch.com) will be powered by CISP, a world-wide distributor of the FAST Search technology.

  • Getting Found by Metasearch
    ClickZ 10/04/2000
    As metasearch sites improve their capabilities and become better known, the number of people using them will grow even vaster. Ensuring your web site gets found by metasearch engines can help you tap into an audience of millions.

  • Netscape Renews Search Deal With Google
    InternetNews.com 10/04/2000
    Netscape Communications Corp. Wednesday said it will stick with the popular Google search engine, extending its partnership.

  • Netscape.com Unveils New Look
    InternetNews.com 10/04/2000
    Netscape.com opened its virtual doors Wednesday with a new look intended to maximize the online experience.

  • LookSmart Gets Wise To Value Of Volunteers
    Forbes.com 10/04/2000
    LookSmart's recent $20 million acquisition of Zeal will help it build its directory more quickly. But can it do the same for earnings?

  • NFL, Yahoo to Offer Audio Webcasts
    TheStandard 10/04/2000
    Beginning Sunday, fans will be able to listen to play-by-play at NFL.com, on team Web sites and at Yahoo Sports.

  • Investors logging off LookSmart
    The Australian Financial Review 10/04/2000
    Internet directory LookSmart plumbed fresh lows yesterday, slumping 11.7 per cent as investors continued to shy away from the loss- making internet play.

  • Viglen backs primary school portal
    EO News 10/04/2000
    @School, a content portal aimed at primary school children, has taken a £400,000 investment from Vigecom, the Internet investment subsidiary of computer manufacturer Viglen.

  • Yahoo Eyes Threat From "Screen Scrapers"
    Techweb 10/03/2000
    "Screen scrapers" like Yodlee, VerticalOne, and emerging wireless services are casting an ominous shadow over Yahoo, an executive acknowledged.

  • techtv: New Name, New Look, New Search
    Search Engine Guide 10/03/2000
    techtv has undergone a number of changes including adding new search capabilities.

  • New Directories Premiere Using Quiver Data-Mining Technology
    Company Press Release at Search Engine Guide 10/03/2000
    Custom directories for two very different audiences premiere this week using Quiver data-mining technology.

  • Dare to Be Noticed: Pay-for-Performance Search
    ClickZ 10/03/2000
    Get your feet wet or your client's feet wet on pay-for-performance pricing models with something targeted and risk-managed like GoTo.com.

  • Yahoo! in Deal to Provide Live Audio of NFL Games
    Excite News 10/03/2000
    Yahoo Inc. and the National Football League Tuesday announced a partnership through which Yahoo will provide live audio play-by-play Webcasts of NFL games.

  • Portals have the answers with advice services
    CNET News.com 10/03/2000
    The market for Web sites offering person-to-person advice and consulting services underwent a seismic shift last week with the entry of portal heavyweight Yahoo, which launched a free service linking questioners with people who claim specialized knowledge in various disciplines.

  • VerticalNet and CEO face many challenges
    philly.com 10/03/2000
    Joe Galli did more than promise profitability by the third quarter of 20001. He said the Horsham firm one day would be "extraordinarily profitable."

  • Go2Net.com sets its sights high
    UpsideToday 10/03/2000
    Go2Net now delivers an end-to-end integrated platform of applications and technologies for converging media platforms including narrowband and broadband PCs, TVs, PDAs, pagers, cellular phones and other Web appliances.

  • Are portals passe?
    MSNBC 10/03/2000
    Very quietly and without fanfare, a major shift has taken place: The Portal Era is over.

  • AltaVista launches local search engine
    The Australian Financial Review 10/03/2000
    The turmoil in the internet search engine market that has seen LookSmart slump to a record low and Yahoo! Inc drop to a 12-month low has not inhibited the global ambitions of AltaVista, which will today launch AltaVista Australia.

  • GoTo Auctions Provides Auction Search Results to Mamma.com
    StockHouse Canada 10/03/2000
    GoTo Auctions and Mamma.com today announced a strategic partnership whereby GoTo Auctions will provide customized, integrated auction search results to Mamma.com's five million unique monthly visitors.

  • LookSmart Plays Community Trump Card with Zeal Acquisition
    Traffick Report at Search Engine Guide 10/02/2000
    The move by LookSmart to acquire Zeal is an important one from an image standpoint. Companies whose living is 100% dependent on the Internet must show that they recognize the importance of knowledge exchange and interactivity as opposed to staying locked into top-down or broadcast-mode communications.

  • About.com Will Take on B-to-B
    TheStandard 10/02/2000
    About.com will announce a new business unit Monday that will provide customized content to exchanges, vendor sites, industry consortia and intranets using About.com's unique model: highly targeted topic sites steered by guides who are experts in the subject.

  • VerticalNet - The Microsoft of Philadelphia?
    philly.com 10/02/2000
    VerticalNet's chief executive has high hopes for the Horsham e-commerce company. Just how high are they?

  • WordWave launches Net-search division
    Boston Globe 10/02/2000
    WordWave Inc., a Boston-based company that provides closed-captioning services for major television networks and legal transcription, is launching a new division today aimed at making it easier to search film and sound clips over the Internet for specific content.

  • To Or is Human - Search Engine Default Boolean Operators
    About Web Search 10/02/2000
    Many search engines automatically connect your query terms with an OR command, often returning thousands of useless results. Here are the culprits, and what to do to prevent the problem.

  • ProMusicFind.com Acquires Music1Search
    PRNewswire 10/02/2000
    ProMusicFind.com announces it has acquired Music1Search, the second largest Web site for listing the inventories of record and CD dealers and collectors.

  • Analyst Pick: Yahoo! Inc.
    CNBC 10/02/2000
    Looking for an Internet stock to Yahoo about? Look no further than popular portal Yahoo!, Rashtchy says.

  • Impartiality Of E-Government Portal Questioned
    Washtech.com 10/02/2000
    Ten days after the launch of Firstgov.gov, a vast site that allows users to search all 27 million federal government Web pages available online, consumer and business groups raise questions about the government's newfound relationship with the site's private-sector partners.

  • Yahoo! eGroups Does an About Face on Ad Policy
    InternetNews.com 10/02/2000
    In a concession to users that industry watchers long expected -- but said they hoped not to see -- Yahoo! revealed last week that it would no longer place banner ads at the top of discussion list e-mails.

  • Soybean association to launch global portal
    ecommerce business daily 10/02/2000
    WEGO, a portal provider for trade and professional associations, said today it has agreed to build and host a new portal for the 29,000-member American Soybean Association (ASA) and its 26 affiliates.