Overture to Buy Web-Search Pioneer AltaVista

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Overture To Buy AltaVista

Overture To Buy AltaVista 02/18/2003 08:23 PM
The acquisition of AltaVista will solve this problem and make the company more competitive, especially when fighting for deals against Google. ...

AltaVista gives in to Overture

AltaVista gives in to Overture 02/19/2003 07:46 AM
He also denied the move was to pre-empt the rising challenge of 'independent' search market leader Google, which launched its paid-for product AdWords last ...

Overture Buys Altavista

Overture Buys Altavista 02/19/2003 12:32 AM
Overture is to buy Alta Vista for $140 million.

AltaVista and Overture Do a Deal

AltaVista and Overture Do a Deal 06/07/2002 07:44 AM
"Overture will provide its top three editorially reviewed search results under the heading Products and Services..."

Overture has deal to buy AltaVista

Overture has deal to buy AltaVista 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
The move positions Overture to battle on all fronts with Google, which has become the leading search engine in terms of audience. ...

Overture to buy AltaVista for $140
million

Overture to buy AltaVista for $140
million 02/18/2003 09:28 PM
The company has faced increased competition from popular upstarts such as Google Inc., and in November it revamped its service with new search tools for ...

Overture buys AltaVista

Overture buys AltaVista 02/19/2003 11:54 AM
Before the days of Google's supremacy, AltaVista was the most popular search engine around, with more than 65 million users per month, and 58 search technology ...

Overture buying Altavista

Overture buying Altavista 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
A co-worker just pointed it out. I'm not sure why, but I'm amused. I guess it's just more of the same--consolidation in the search and paid listings businesses. Anyone wanna guess who's gonna be next?...

Overture Buys AltaVista for $140 Million

Overture Buys AltaVista for $140 Million 02/19/2003 04:38 AM
After entering the paid-search market nearly a year ago, Google quickly became the leader and lured away Overture partners EarthLink, Ask Jeeves and AOL. ...

Overture falls 21% after agreement to
buy AltaVista

Overture falls 21% after agreement to
buy AltaVista 02/20/2003 03:27 AM
Web sites listed. That could help Overture compete with rival search-engines such as Google Inc., analysts said. Overture also will ...

Overture Services to Buy AltaVista for
$140 Million

Overture Services to Buy AltaVista for
$140 Million 02/19/2003 01:33 AM
The move positions Overture to battle on all fronts with Google, which has become the leading search engine in terms of audience. ...

AltaVista finds a buyer in Overture
Services

AltaVista finds a buyer in Overture
Services 02/19/2003 06:45 AM
Overture has had to share a growing portion of revenue from sponsored searches with its partners since Google launched a competitive paid-search offering last ...

Overture Plunges Following Deal to
Acquire AltaVista

Overture Plunges Following Deal to
Acquire AltaVista 02/19/2003 07:06 PM
It looks like they're trying to grow up to be just like Google, which is hilarious," Mr. Rohan said in an interview. Google is ...

Overture Challenges Google with
AltaVista Grab

Overture Challenges Google with
AltaVista Grab 02/19/2003 04:01 PM
By Keith Regan. Overture's foray into automated search comes as Google has made headway into the paid listings arena. Last year, Google ...

WWW-Search-AltaVista-2.13

WWW-Search-AltaVista-2.13 12/16/2003 10:10 AM

AltaVista Hacker Works on MSN Search

AltaVista Hacker Works on MSN Search 07/09/2004 04:42 PM
A man charged with hacking into AltaVista two years ago to steal proprietary search-engine technology works at Microsoft on the MSN Search team, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

MSN search guru 'stole AltaVista code'

MSN search guru 'stole AltaVista code' 07/12/2004 05:18 PM
More Borlandgate than Watergate

AltaVista - Small Screen Search Option

AltaVista - Small Screen Search Option 02/15/2003 05:35 PM
A new small screen search option at Altavista works well for side panels and pda sized screens.

Still Room At The Top! (AltaVista search
engine ranking)

Still Room At The Top! (AltaVista search
engine ranking) 09/14/2002 05:06 PM
Stickysauce Sep 14 2002 3:32PM ET

Man Accused of AltaVista Theft Working
on MSN Search?

Man Accused of AltaVista Theft Working
on MSN Search? 07/09/2004 06:56 AM
"A Kirkland man arrested last week on allegations that he stole proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago is a Microsoft Corp. employee who has been working...

AltaVista Expands Multimedia Index,
Refines News Search

AltaVista Expands Multimedia Index,
Refines News Search 02/12/2003 02:34 PM
AltaVista has expanded its multimedia index and upgraded its news search as it continues to joust with Google and others in the sector. ...

Guy Who Stole AltaVista Source Code
Working On Search At Microsoft

Guy Who Stole AltaVista Source Code
Working On Search At Microsoft 07/09/2004 03:28 PM
A man who was arrested last week for stealing AltaVista's source code is apparently now working on Microsoft's well publicized search technology efforts. AltaVista, of course, was the original great search engine, before it got confused and decided to "go portal" like everyone else. Apparently, this guy worked at AltaVista, but some time after he left decided he wanted to see how the product had "evolved" and discovered he could still log in to his old AltaVista account. He then downloaded the source code to his home computer. This all happened before he went to work for Microsoft, so the conspiracy theories about Microsoft stealing the code don't apply, but it does raise some questions about Microsoft's search technology.

Overture to buy more search tech

Overture to buy more search tech 02/25/2003 01:20 PM
Although Google can lay claim to the bulk of the consumer business, companies including Overture and Yahoo have taken a much greater interest in the ...

Overture Buys Fast Search

Overture Buys Fast Search 02/25/2003 03:24 PM
We are not responsible for them in any way. that I was just reading an article about how FAST came up with a lot of the things that geeks idolize Google for. ...

Overture - MSN Extend Search Pact

Overture - MSN Extend Search Pact 10/29/2003 01:14 AM

NBC, Overture Sign Search Deal

NBC, Overture Sign Search Deal 11/10/2003 11:11 PM

Overture takes on search engine

Overture takes on search engine 02/26/2003 11:25 AM
AlltheWeb.com processes about 2.5 million queries a day. Google, the Web's most popular search engine, crunches through about 150 million daily search queries. ...

Overture To Acquire Web Search Unit For
$70M

Overture To Acquire Web Search Unit For
$70M 03/12/2003 07:06 PM

NBC, Overture sign search deal

NBC, Overture sign search deal 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
CNET Nov 10 2003 1:46AM ET

Overture Targets Local Search Ads

Overture Targets Local Search Ads 06/29/2004 05:28 PM
Yahoo's search advertising division joins Google and others in the market to deliver sponsored search listings based on an advertiser's geographic criteria.

Overture to pay up to $100 million for
more search tools

Overture to pay up to $100 million for
more search tools 02/25/2003 06:32 PM
AlltheWeb.com processes about 2.5 million queries a day. Google, the Web's most popular search engine, crunches through about 150 million daily search queries. ...

Overture to Buy More Search Power to
Fight Google

Overture to Buy More Search Power to
Fight Google 02/26/2003 05:44 PM
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paid Internet search provider Overture Services Inc. (OVER.O) on Tuesday took another step to challenge its chief rival, Google, by ...

Overture to pay up to $100 million for
more online search tools

Overture to pay up to $100 million for
more online search tools 02/25/2003 08:34 PM
AlltheWeb.com processes about 2.5 million queries a day. Google, the Web's most popular search engine, crunches through about 150 million daily search queries. ...

Overture adds local sponsored search

Overture adds local sponsored search 06/29/2004 07:33 AM
Computer Shopper Jun 29 2004 11:37AM GMT

Overture December Search Numbers Updated

Overture December Search Numbers Updated 01/13/2003 07:55 AM
"Since every month we have people asking (myself included) why Overture is still showing old results, I thought I would post that December 2002 results are showing."

Overture lands European search deal

Overture lands European search deal 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The deal helps Overture maintain a solid foothold in Europe, where it competes with rival Google and others for commercial search partnerships. ...

Lycos sues Overture over search deal

Lycos sues Overture over search deal 11/04/2003 09:26 PM
The Web portal says that Overture Services violated the provisions of a commercial search contract between them when it agreed to be acquired by Yahoo.

Overture Launches Search Optimization
Tool

Overture Launches Search Optimization
Tool 07/27/2004 04:23 PM
Source: InternetNews.com - The Web-based application was designed to help search engine marketers manage and optimize large numbers of keywords. The tool is Overture's answer to aQuantive's Atlas OnePoint, or Atlas Search, but the auto-optimization works only on the company's...

Overture Inks Search Pact with MSN Japan

Overture Inks Search Pact with MSN Japan 02/13/2003 05:29 PM
By signing up MSN's Japanese sites, Overture notched another win in its battle with rival Google to expand the paid-listings business to international markets. ...
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Tripping The Rift Returns

Tripping The Rift Returns 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The Star Wars-inspired fan-made 3D animated short film Tripping the Rift has been gone for awhile now, but makes its return tonight in a new Sci-Fi Channel series. Look for some new characters added to the line-up, and no doubt a toned-down theme from its earlier incarnation, but science fiction fans should definitely check it out. Click on the thumbnail above to check out the show's official site.

The Tripping Point

The Tripping Point 02/12/2004 07:37 PM
Joe Trippi at an Emerging Technology Teach-In spoke to his Internet troops. He came to teach them about a fateful moment in the campaign, where the Net movement disconnected from Dean's condition. But he also told them: you made us. You are changing American politics. And it's still about the money.

Road-Tripping

Road-Tripping 02/12/2004 05:01 PM
Transport company revenues stand as a revealing economic indicator.

PressThink: The Tripping Point

PressThink: The Tripping Point 02/13/2004 07:57 PM
Joe Trippi and the Dean campaign .. analysis of Joe Trippi's comments .. Jay on Etech .. latest essay

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Trivial Road Tripping

Trivial Road Tripping 12/03/2003 12:37 AM

Heeeeeeey, Kate - I think I've found our entertainment for next week's trip to Springfield!!

TRIVI AL PURSUIT® for Palm OS

"The world's most popular trivia game is now available for users of Palm Powered handheld devices. With incredible new game features, the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® Handheld Edition rewards the clever, while still highlighting everyone's trivia talents. The game features over 1600 questions in six categories- Sports and Leisure, Arts and Entertainment, History, Science and Nature, People and Places, and Wild Card.

In Classic mode, players of the board game will find comfort in its familiarity, while experiencing the benefits of automated card selection, rolls of the die and token movement. Flash mode offers a ladder-style version of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game in which one to six players take turns answering questions. Players move up the ladder with every correct answer and the first player to reach the top rung and answer the final questions is the winner. Play in single player mode or against two to six opponents in local hot seat mode and multiplayer" [Handango]

I'm particularly intrigued by the following two interactive options, especially since I'll be playing this on my Treo 600!

• "Multiplayer support of 2-6 players over Bluetooth and IR (Infra-red)
• Multiplayer lobby offers a meeting place for a networked game including chat among players"

Tripping on Internet Populism

Tripping on Internet Populism 02/16/2004 08:12 PM
The Nation Feb 17 2004 0:35AM GMT

Tripping the Light Fantastic

Tripping the Light Fantastic 05/01/2004 07:46 AM
So now that Menu Master 1.1.1 is ready for release (it is a download link, that it is) and will...

Socorro Road Tripping

Socorro Road Tripping 10/29/2003 01:15 AM
My girlfriend Karen and I recently went on a road trip in and around Socorro, New Mexico. The first shot was taken by Karen, the rest by me....

Tripping on their own feeble arguments

Tripping on their own feeble arguments 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
The Social Security debate continues to be infuriating. Pardon me while I release some smoke from the top of my pate.

There are a number of strange arguments floating around out there as part of the desperate effort to try to get the American people to buy President Bush's Social Security pig-in-a-fiscal-poke. Something happens when you put these arguments side by side: They undermine one another.

Consider, if you will, this comment from someone named Craig on my most recent Social Security post. As far as I can tell, Craig has cut-and-pasted big chunks of long quotes from two different Washington Times columns into his comment, one by Thomas Sowell and another by John Palffy. (I'll write off the failure to attribute these quotes to oversight since the commenter does say "Please read the following info.")

Sowell argues that the Social Security Trust Fund is a mere "legal and accounting fiction" because one arm of the government is putting its excess cash into the hands of another, in the form of the IOUs known as Treasury bonds. As I and others keep noting, the idea that Treasury bonds are mere fictions is one that would be news to the vast number of institutions and individuals around the world who consider them the bluest of blue chip investments. What this argument really says is that the government doesn't have to make good on those bonds -- they're just a "fiction" -- when they're purchased with our Social Security taxes, set aside to handle the future shortfalls of the system, and held in trust for the retirements of America's working people. The U.S. government would never default on the bonds purchased by another country's central bank -- but hey, if the American people put their retirement money in such a form, the government is sure to renege on the debt. We're so sure it's going to renege that we're getting ready to ditch the most successful and beloved U.S. government program in history.

Why will the government default? Apparently, we're to believe, because it can. "Liberals are desperate to keep Social Security as it is, because that would mean they can continue spending your money as they see fit," Sowell writes. Funny, though; the money was fine until Bush's conservatives started cutting taxes four years ago. "Our money" was frittered away not by "liberals" but by the current administration -- on dividend tax cuts, estate tax cuts, wars of choice and other elective policies. Those policies could be reversed as easily, maybe more easily, than privatizing Social Security.

But this all gets more interesting in the second half of Craig's post, where he moves from Sowell's argument to Palffy's. Palffy wants us to put aside the silly notion that privatization means our retirement funds will be at risk. How foolish to imagine that there is any reason to worry about placing Social Security money in private markets rather than in the government's hands! But since the pesky AARP is stirring up those excitable seniors again, Palffy has a plan to soothe our graying hairs: Why, we can require that all those private (excuse me, "personal") accounts invest their money in one safe place. That ultra-reliable investment? Inflation-protected Treasury bonds!

So much for the idea that private accounts restore free-market choice. Under this plan, Social Security pretty much remains exactly the same, except that there are little chunks of money in Treasury bonds that have our names on them instead of one big chunk of bonds with Social Security's name on it. The government is still holding all that money for us, and if we're to believe Sowell and his ilk, the government can't resist getting its greedy Big Government paws on any money in sight, so there's just as much reason under the new plan as under the existing one to expect the perfidious liberals in Congress (despite their minority status!) to default on its obligations.

This round-trip doesn't get us very far at all, does it? The spinning is desperate, contradictory, ultimately inane. That's what happens when your stated plans of "reform" don't match your actual goal (eliminating Social Security). Or maybe the Washington Times' columnists, and their advocates among the population of blog commenters, need new marching orders from the White House: They did such a good job on the "private/personal" switcheroo.

In the end, there's one thing I can agree with the conservatives on: Social Security is only as safe as the lawmakers in Washington allow it to be. Sowell & co. say we must fear because we can't trust the government to keep Social Security afloat. But the government he is telling us will betray Social Security isn't in the hands of the "liberals" upon whom his finger points. It is the Bush administration that has endangered Social Security, and it is the Bush administration that now wishes to end Social Security as we know it. It may get its way. But let's make sure the American people understand who's responsible for the ensuing debacle.

BOFH: Tripping the mangelfreuzer switch

BOFH: Tripping the mangelfreuzer switch 08/11/2004 05:02 AM
Episode 25 Crash, bang, wallop

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up 04/15/2005 11:14 PM
I.B.M.'s disappointing earnings report points to the risk in the company's strategy for its corporate services business.

Can Anglican rift be resolved?

Can Anglican rift be resolved? 03/23/2005 07:49 AM
The Scottish Episcopal Church has said that being a practising homosexual is not a bar to becoming a priest. Send us your comments.

Sun, IBM Solidify Tools Rift

Sun, IBM Solidify Tools Rift 02/18/2004 12:06 PM
New software tools introduced by the two companies build on the growing separation between NetBeans and Eclipse.

A rift among the Hillary haters

A rift among the Hillary haters 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
Hey, Dick Morris, jealous much?

BT shrugs off reports of boardroom rift

BT shrugs off reports of boardroom rift 01/19/2004 01:45 AM
The Scotsman Jan 19 2004 5:37AM GMT

Powell tries to repair rift with France

Powell tries to repair rift with France 07/14/2004 02:57 PM

Rift keeps Briton's fate unclear

Rift keeps Briton's fate unclear 09/22/2004 12:12 PM
The fate of a British hostage remains unclear amid conflicting reports around the release of an Iraqi prisoner.

Rift Over Global Info Control

Rift Over Global Info Control 12/10/2003 05:45 AM
Developing countries resent what they see as American dominance over information technology. They'd like to see the Internet placed under U.N. control. The United States and its industrialized allies disagree.

Google to archive video clips for video
bl0gging

Google to archive video clips for video
bl0gging 04/06/2005 04:39 AM
osOpinion Apr 6 2005 8:38AM GMT

Soldier's Death Causes Rift in Illinois
Family

Soldier's Death Causes Rift in Illinois
Family 11/14/2003 02:53 PM
"George Bush killed my son." With these words, peace activist Rosemary Slavenas buried her son, Brian, a National Guardsman and "great, big kid" killed in the downing of a Chinook helicopter in Iraq. A tragic story of an Illinois family split in two by the death of their son, who received two funerals -- one military, with honors, and the other, with strong words for the current administration.

Transatlantic Rift Deepens Over Iraq
Contracts

Transatlantic Rift Deepens Over Iraq
Contracts 12/11/2003 12:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 11 2003 10:42AM ET

Aslef leader warns of union rift

Aslef leader warns of union rift 04/15/2004 10:22 PM
The leader of Britain's biggest train drivers' union says he has lost day-to-day control because of a power struggle.

Rift delays Iraqi president talks

Rift delays Iraqi president talks 05/31/2004 04:11 AM
Talks to discuss who should be Iraq's president are delayed amid reports of disagreement between the US and Iraqis.

Nato seeks to heal Iraq war rift

Nato seeks to heal Iraq war rift 06/27/2004 10:54 PM
Nato leaders are set to agree to a plan to train Iraqi armed forces, in a show of unity for the alliance.

Internet widens rift between political
left, right

Internet widens rift between political
left, right 06/28/2004 05:25 AM
Chron.com - Mon Jun 28, 06:52 am GMT

Stem Cell Rift in Golden State

Stem Cell Rift in Golden State 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Wired News Jun 6 2005 3:00AM GMT

U.S. and Europe Must Mend Rift Over
Iraq, Cheney Says

U.S. and Europe Must Mend Rift Over
Iraq, Cheney Says 01/24/2004 02:53 PM
Vice President Dick Cheney called Saturday for the United States and its European allies to bridge their differences over Iraq.

Prescott reveals Blair-Brown rift

Prescott reveals Blair-Brown rift 05/14/2004 11:59 PM
In a newspaper interview, John Prescott admits relations between the prime minister and Gordon Brown "broke down".

Survey Finds Transatlantic Rift
Hardening

Survey Finds Transatlantic Rift
Hardening 09/09/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 9 2004 5:15AM GMT

MyDoom reignites the rift between lusers
and the tech-savvy

MyDoom reignites the rift between lusers
and the tech-savvy 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Technophiles are showing more anger towards those they believe are not making efforts to learn more about technology.

Overture to Buy Web-Search Pioneer AltaVista

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