by denis | Mar 4, 2004 | Search
It appears that Yahoo!’s bold and less than brilliant foray into ” Looksmart-like ” paid inclusion may have been the final nudge that AskJeeves needed to shut down their paid inclusion program, Index Express (not Index Connect which is Inktomi). This...
by denis | Feb 26, 2004 | Search
The past year has been one of major transition in the search engine industry. Changes to the landscape have been enormous with mergers, acquisitions, and the easing of several formerly big-players out of the sector or, in the case of AltaVista, Lycos and LookSmart,...
by denis | Feb 14, 2004 | Search
Just so y’all know, MSN is currently displaying results drawn from the Looksmart database. Looksmart is still supplying results for MSN to use whenever they need to tweak with Inktomi’s feed.
by denis | Jan 21, 2004 | Search
For a short time last week, both MSN and Yahoo were displaying results drawn from Inktomi. MSN continues to use results directly from the Inktomi database but it appears that Yahoo has reverted back to results from Google, for the time being. Last Thursday (Jan. 15),...
by denis | Jan 15, 2004 | Search
We’ve all known today was coming, the day MSN drops LookSmart listings in favour of listings from Inktomi. We are starting to see Inktomi listings appearing on MSN. Inktomi is owned by Yahoo! and will also be delivering results to Yahoo! in the coming months....
