by denis | Feb 8, 2005 | Social
The venerable About.Com is on the auction block. Founded in 1996 as the Mining Company, About is one of the oldest well-known Internet properties. In October 2000, About was purchased by Primemedia for $690Million worth of stocks. Today, the final bids are being...
by denis | May 7, 2004 | Search
It appears that Time Warner is looking to dump its AOL unit and both Yahoo and MSN are interested. This story is just starting to develop so there will be a lot more written about this soon. Aside from the massive changes a sale of AOL will bring to the SEO world,...
by denis | Mar 19, 2004 | Search
MSN has inked a deal with LookSmart to display LookSmart results in place of Inktomi results from time to time. The deal, which was finalized early this week, allows MSN to transfer from results drawn from the Inktomi database to results fed by LookSmart whenever MSN...
by denis | Mar 4, 2004 | Search
Search provider Ask Jeeves announced today its plans to acquire Interactive Search Holdings, one of the largest privately owned online media and search companies, in a $343 million deal that is part of the company’s efforts to strengthen its grasp on the steadily...
by denis | Feb 26, 2004 | Search
ZNet writer Stephanie Olsen has uncovered a terribly interesting story. Why do you think Yahoo spent so much money buying AltaVista, AlltheWeb and Inktomi if it is simply going to develop its own search engine with its own database? For the intellectual properties...
