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Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Terra Lycos To Launch Paid Placement Network Terra Lycos is set to enter the paid placement game alongside players such as Overture and Google, when the company opens its "InSite AdBuyer" program to advertisers in the coming weeks.   |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Redeems Itself With Relaunch Today's relaunch of Lycos is a surprising reversal of the service's decline. If you gave up on Lycos in the past, it is well worth revisiting the improved service... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
InternetNews
May 18, 2004
Ron Miller |
Lycos Trumps Google on e-Mail Storage Terra Lycos is first from the gate with a new e-mail service in Europe boasting 1GB of storage. But will users pay a monthly fee? |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Lycos Partners More Closely With FAST Lycos has finally committed to using FAST Search's results to power the "Web Sites" section of its search results.... |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Lycos Changes Listings Format Lycos has altered the format of its search results page, in order to consistently present more information from different sources within the same space. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2003
Pamela Parker |
Lycos Europe, Overture Expand Deal, Involve Yahoo! Google and Espotting fail in their bid to replace Yahoo!'s Overture for paid listings on Lycos Europe's search pages. |
The Motley Fool
March 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lycos Calls Back A blast from the past is back with a penny-pinching dream of a soft phone service. More than just a "me too" product, Lycos is offering long-distance rates in key markets that are less than half of what Yahoo! and eBay are charging. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2004
Rich Smith |
Lycos' Lesson for Google Investors Terra Networks bought Lycos high, but sells it low. |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 1999 |
Lycos 50 Features Our Searches Forget live search displays. Lycos has realized that all our searches can make for great content, if assembled correctly. |
InternetNews
February 12, 2004
Rebecca Lieb |
Lycos U.S. Changes... Everything A one, two punch: the company announces a radical strategy shift, and a very lucrative contract with 24/7 Real Media. |
Search Engine Watch
July 17, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies... |
InternetNews
March 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Lycos Asks Jeeves Lycos and Jeeves team together to compete against the heavyweights of search: Google, MSN and Yahoo. |
Salon.com
May 22, 2000
Steve Bodow |
Pay no more Wall Street may have snubbed the $12.5 billion marriage between Lycos and Terra Networks, but the deal could lead to free Web and phone service. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side? The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as Star Wars, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow? |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
HotBot Is Reborn Terra Lycos has been saying for ages that the HotBot site was slated for desperately-needed improvements, and now they've come. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Direct Hit Debuts at MSN Search, Lycos Both MSN Search and Lycos are now featuring Direct Hit results, and the company itself has just received $26 million in financing from a variety of venture firms. |
Information Today
February 25, 2002 |
News Digest CSA Unveils Two New Engineering Databases... FAST, Lycos Offer Co-Branded Service... SciQuest Launches New Products Derived from SciCentral |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
The Problems With Rating Services Not only are figures from the web's major ratings services are far from perfect, but they can be and are manipulated much more by web property owners than could ever happen when compared to television ratings. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
"Invisible Web" Revealed Lycos and IntelliSeek, maker of the BullsEye desktop search utility, have teamed up to produce an index of search databases to help users find information that is invisible to search engines.... |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Latest To Carry GoTo Paid Listings AltaVista has become the latest in a string of search engines to carry paid listings provided by GoTo.com... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Security Concerns Security issues with Lycos and Google came up in July. They aren't likely to impact many, if any, users, so don't get panicked. Here's a rundown on what happened... |
InternetNews
August 29, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Lycos Hopes Video Search Improves Its Relevance Lycos is adding a new search capability that will allow users to search for video clips on the Web. |
Search Engine Watch
May 30, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Disclosure Ratings In June 2002, the US Federal Trade Commission issued guidelines to US-based search engines about how they should disclose paid content to searchers. Periodically, Search Engine Watch assesses how well it believes search engines are meeting these guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Europe's Paid Placement Warriors Unlike in the US, Overture faces competition for major partners in the form of United Kingdom-based Espotting... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The End For Search Engines? The impending closure of Go only underscores the dramatic changes that have been taking place among the major search engines. Money is tight; new revenue is being sought anywhere, and no one seems guaranteed a future. Will your favorite search engine be around tomorrow? |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Excite@Home Goes Bankrupt; AltaVista Cuts Staff Two of the web's oldest search engines had more bad financial news, with Excite@Home filing for bankruptcy last Friday and AltaVista also announcing a new round of layoffs last month... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 1999 |
September 99 Search Engine Briefs Covers a new Lycos search utility & Northern Light's govsearch service. |
CIO
January 15, 2003
Timothy Wright |
Changing Horses in Midstream How the CIO of Terra Lycos helped his company change direction, fast. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses LookSmart has expanded its LookListings paid inclusion program so that small businesses can purchase "deep listings" previously only offered to large businesses with big budgets. |
Entrepreneur
November 2001
Melissa Campanelli |
Guaranteed Results Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you? |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos Inducts The First Lycos Elite List Lycos has weighed in with a new list based on search popularity: The Lycos 50 Elite... |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
FAST Gets Bigger, Partners With Lycos FAST Search set a new benchmark in January, when it went unveiled an index of 300 million web pages. This makes it the largest search engine on the web, based on self-reported numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Gets Paid Listings If the appearance of paid placement listings on search engines has been a revolution over the past few months, then the war is over, because they've now come to that most conservative of search engines, Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
GoTo Speaks Out On FTC Complaint At last month's Online Advertising Forum, GoTo's CEO Ted Meisel fired back at the complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission over paid listings on some search engines. His comments were both right and wrong on many points... |
Information Today
July 23, 2001
Chris Sherman |
Consumer Watchdog Files Complaint Against Eight Search Engines for 'Crass Commercialism' Commercial Alert, a 3-year-old group founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, has filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against eight Web search engines "for placing ads in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads"... |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Lights. Camera. Revolution! A blast from the past comes back to screen a new video game plan. For now, Lycos Cinema is providing a seed of innovation. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New AllTheWeb.com Goes Live FAST Search's AllTheWeb.com got both a new look and new functionality in July, improvements that have turned the site into a top-notch resource for searchers... |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Patent Wars II: CMGI Strikes Back Tempest in a teapot -- That's what I said in 1997, when Lycos announced it had patents on search engine crawling, and I see nothing different in light of AltaVista's recent claims... |
InternetNews
March 27, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Lycos Sniffing Out VoIP, And Then Some Lycos has joined the burgeoning free voice-over-IP fray by offering the service to its users. |
Search Engine Watch
August 23, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Lycos Introduces People, Discussion Search Tools In a bid to differentiate itself from Google and the other major search players, Lycos has rolled out two search tools aimed at helping people connect with other people. |
Information Today
July 1, 2002 |
News Digest Web Book Retailers Go Head-to-Head... Terra Lycos Launches Lycos Search 6.0... Quiver Announces QKS Topic Advisor, New Release of QKS Classifier |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Terra Nitrogen Grew Like Gangbusters in 2011 The fertilizer company has capitalized on the strong environment for the agricultural industry, turning high crop prices into a major profit opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2012
Dan Caplinger |
2012 Should Keep Terra Nitrogen Growing Let's look at this year's prospects for this company. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2004
Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
