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MSN vs. Google and Yahoo, Round 3
March 16, 2005
Microsoft's surge into search started with algorithmic and desktop efforts. Now comes the paid-search platform.
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Yahoo earnings to shine on search
April 5, 2004
The portal giant is set to report its financial earnings, capping another quarter dominated by efforts to take on Google and beef up its Web search business.
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Geico sues Google, Overture over trademarks
May 18, 2004
The auto insurance company is taking the search engines to court for allegedly violating its trademarks by selling them as keywords in their advertising programs.
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Sizing up the search competition
August 29, 2003
Fighting it out for dominance in search, Google and Overture make size count: Google quietly expands its database one week after its rival touts a bigger index on AlltheWeb.
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Microsoft commercial-search chief departs
February 26, 2004
The executive charged with building a paid-search technology to compete with Yahoo and Google has quietly left the company after less than four months on the job.
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Are search engines confusing surfers?
October 14, 2003
The FTC says search companies still have work to do in making sure that ads placed in search results are clearly marked as such, so consumers can tell them apart.
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Yahoo, Google primed for search war
January 15, 2004
Yahoo says it will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in favor of its own technology, opening a new phase in the battle for Web search dominance.
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Yahoo to launch blog ad network
August 2, 2005
Self-serve advertising program, tailored to bloggers and other small Web publishers, to debut Wednesday, source says.
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Microsoft kicks off search effort
February 1, 2005
Firm replaces Yahoo's search technology with its own and launches widespread ad campaign, in hopes of dethroning Google. Images: Microsoft revs its search engine
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Patents raise stakes in search wars
February 26, 2004
The dispute between Yahoo and Google over keyword auction method offers an early sign of the intellectual property struggles to come in one of the Web's hottest markets.
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Yahoo puts local content on the map
March 9, 2004
The Internet portal continues its Internet search expansion by delivering information on local points of interest, such as restaurants, hotels and parks, via its online map system.
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Yahoo dumps Google search technology
February 18, 2004
Yahoo drops Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web's most high-profile marriage of convenience.
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Ask Jeeves denounces paid inclusion
March 3, 2004
The company will stop accepting advertiser payments for inclusion in its searchable Web database, a move to draw competitive lines between it and Yahoo's new search engine.
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Year in review: Searching for dollars
January 8, 2004
Commercial search was the saving grace of advertising sales in 2003 for many companies, reminding everyone of the early promise and growth of the online ad industry.
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Overture cleans up its drug ad policy
November 18, 2003
Overture Services stops selling search-related advertising to unlicensed online pharmacies, in response to concern about illegal drug sales over the Internet.
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Search engines face drug test
November 10, 2003
Calls to curtail advertisements from allegedly illegal dealers point to growing pains for the Internet's newest marketing powerhouses.
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