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Week in review: Microsoft seeks for search gains

May 23, 2008 Company gets creative in quest for larger search market slice, while Facebook tries to make nice with Google. Also: Soft cell market. TAGS: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Search, Google Inc., Week in review, acquisition, Internet search, asset, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo buys travel company

August 6, 2004 The Web portal acquires FareChase, a small online travel company, to broaden its search tools. TAGS: travel company, online travel company, Yahoo! Inc., hotel, Web portal, agent, Internet search, portal, acquisition

Yahoo studies up on search

January 21, 2004 The Net giant forms Yahoo Research Labs, a team of scientists that will investigate and develop future Internet technologies. TAGS: Overture Services Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet search, scientist, lab, Sunnyvale, innovation, search technology, project, acquisition, open source, California, Google Inc.

Yahoo CEO Semel: Search is everywhere in 2004

January 6, 2004 Terry Semel says Yahoo has "only just begun" with its grand plans to grow its Web search business, highlighting 2004 as a year when search will become omnipresent throughout its family of sites. TAGS: Terry Semel, Inktomi, Yahoo! Inc., Overture Services Inc., SBC Communications Inc., subscriber, Internet search, finance, search engine company, DSL, acquisition, search technology, Google Inc., conference, CEO, music

Yahoo puts Inktomi to the test

August 21, 2003 The portal giant is expanding tests of search technology from its recent Inktomi acquisition in preparation for a global launch. TAGS: Inktomi, Diana Lee, Fast Search & Transfer, Peter Crowe, AltaVista Co., Overture Services Inc., search technology, Yahoo! Inc., Internet search, Brazil, Australia, acquisition, portal, Google Inc., U.S.

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. TAGS: patent, Overture Services Inc., intellectual property, AltaVista Co., Internet search advertising, Internet search, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., sign, R&D, attorney, search engine, acquisition, Microsoft Corp.

Year in review: Searching for a winner

December 17, 2004 Google went public; Yahoo perfected its own search; and Microsoft said, "Don't count me out!" Then there were all those me-toos. TAGS: personalized search, desktop search, online advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., winner, Wall Street, search engine, digital video, Internet search, acquisition, America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., e-mail

InfoSpace to bring Switchboard on board

March 26, 2004 The Internet company plans to pay approximately $160 million for Switchboard in a bid to boost traffic to its online directories and to enter the local search market. TAGS: Switchboard, InfoSpace Inc., local search, Internet company, directory, Internet search, traffic, acquisition, Yahoo! Inc.

Stoked on search deals

March 26, 2004 The Net search business is firing on all cylinders, with Yahoo's $575 million buy of European e-commerce provider Kelkoo and InfoSpace's $160 million bid for Switchboard driving the already hot sec... TAGS: Kelkoo, InfoSpace Inc., paid search, Switchboard, e-commerce company, search business, Ask.com, height, local search, e-commerce, search engine company, Internet search, bid, Yahoo! Inc., firing, Google Inc.
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