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AOL acquires financial news search company

November 8, 2006 AOL snaps up privately held Relegence, which specializes in delivering financial news and information to the desktop. TAGS: search engine company, America Online Inc., Time Warner Inc., knowledge

Yahoo buys e-mail search company

October 22, 2004 Technology lets people search message text and attachments, possibly a move to rival efforts by Google, Microsoft. TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., search engine company, desktop search, e-mail, acquisition, Google Inc., California, Microsoft Corp.

Google's cookie cut may not be enough for EU

July 18, 2007 EU data watchdog welcomes Google's announcement of a two-year cookie lifespan but says its major concern is server log data use. TAGS: cookie, Google Inc., policy, search engine company, European Union, Yahoo! Inc., representative, server, Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Ask Jeeves taps into desktop search

June 9, 2004 The search engine company is acquiring Tukaroo, which offers search and file management software for desktop computers. TAGS: Ask Jeeves Inc., desktop search, Ask.com, information management, search engine company, search engine, desktop computer

LookSmart names new CEO

October 19, 2004 The Web search company names advertising sales veteran David Hills as its new chief executive, ending a 9-month search. TAGS: LookSmart Ltd., search engine company, Internet search, CEO

Yahoo names click fraud czar

March 22, 2007 Web search company promotes staff attorney to vice president of quality for the advertising system. TAGS: click fraud, advertiser, Yahoo! Inc., search engine company, Internet search, click, Google Inc., vice president, attorney, search engine

Yahoo buys Chinese software firm

November 21, 2003 The portal giant will pay about $120 million in cash over two years to acquire 3721, a Hong Kong-based company that develops software for Internet keyword searches. TAGS: Hong Kong, Yahoo! Inc., search engine company, portal, China, software company

Microsoft drops LookSmart search tool

October 6, 2003 The software giant is ending its deal to use LookSmart's listings on its MSN pages, as it gets ready to push its own Web search technology. TAGS: LookSmart Ltd., search technology, MSN, Internet search, search engine company, search tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Search providers agree to merge

June 18, 2003 FindWhat.com will acquire Espotting in a deal that melds two regional providers of commercial search services into a global network. TAGS: FindWhat, Overture Services Inc., advertiser, search engine company, paid search, provider, search technology, portal, Time Warner Inc., merger, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Autonomy to buy competitor Verity

November 4, 2005 Enterprise search company focusing on corporate-data management will buy California-based Verity for $500 million. TAGS: Autonomy Corp. plc, Verity Inc., David Mitchell, enterprise search, search engine company, leader, CEO, California, Google Inc.

Ask Jeeves heads to Spain

April 5, 2005 Web search provider tests Spanish version of its site as part of a larger expansion plan for Europe. TAGS: Ask Jeeves Inc., Spain, Ask.com, search engine company, Internet search, Europe

Google to consider Gmail changes

April 14, 2004 The search engine giant says it is "batting about" possible changes to its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, which launched last month to a chorus of privacy concerns. TAGS: Gmail, Google Inc., search engine company, search engine, e-mail

Software tool smothers sponsored search

November 14, 2003 InterMute plans to offer a new tool that will let Web surfers block text-based ads from appearing in a Web search, so that noncommercial results come to the fore. TAGS: InterMute, Internet search, search engine company, listing, search result, online advertising, publisher, pop-up, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Ask Jeeves searches within for new CEO

November 3, 2003 The search engine company promotes its president, Steve Berkowitz, to the post of chief executive officer at time when the search industry is rife with competition. TAGS: Ask Jeeves Inc., enterprise software, Ask.com, search technology, Overture Services Inc., search engine company, president, chairman, CEO

Google to power Terra Lycos U.S. ads

September 30, 2003 The Spanish Web portal signs a pact with the search engine provider to use the Google's context-oriented advertising tools across several of its Web sites. TAGS: Terra Lycos, Terra Networks SA, Google AdSense, Tripod, Angelfire, search engine company, Google Inc., advertiser, search engine, search result, opportunity

Search giants court TiVo

April 18, 2005 Company is in talks with search giants Google and Yahoo over possible deal aimed at bridging television and Web, CNET News.com has learned. TAGS: TiVo Inc., Internet search company, Google Inc., Internet search engine, Yahoo! Inc., video service, search engine company, TV, Internet search, search engine, broadband, video

Mozilla backtracks in eBay privacy flap

November 23, 2004 Open-source group updates German-language version of Firefox amid questions over how search tool handled private data. TAGS: Mozilla Corp., eBay Inc., Firefox, foundation, controversy, paid search, message board, search engine company, search tool, spyware, Time Warner Inc., Web browser, open source

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. TAGS: Ask Jeeves Inc., advertiser, inclusion, Internet search, search engine company, text advertisement, index, Yahoo! Inc., placement, search engine, Overture Services Inc., search result, relationship, payment, Google Inc., vice president

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. TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., Inktomi, marriage, technology provider, search engine company, Overture Services Inc., search technology, AltaVista Co., Yahoo Search, Google Inc., convenience, Web portal, Google Search, robot, search result, portal
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