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CitySearch
CitySearch to Start Search Engine: CitySearch announces new search engine and advertising program today that puts a local spin on the highly successful pay-per-click advertising approaches of sites like Google and Overture.
Local Search not for Mom and Pop: Local merchants have just started to think about online advertising in the past six months, according to Dean Polnerow ... according to him, they're not ready for keywords.
InterActiveCorp in talks with Web search engines: Mr. Diller said CitySearch is being courted by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN...If a deal is struck, CitySearch would provide the search engines with sponsored search ads from local businesses
Local Search Part 5: Citysearch Brings Local To Searchers & Merchants: Citysearch's program went fully live in June. It took Overture until September ... with Google following the next month by unveiling a regional targeting feature for its AdWords paid listings program.
FindWhat
FindWhat.com to Purchase Miva Corporation : ...Miva Corporation, a provider of online merchant services ...According to FindWhat, Miva has a base of over 70,000 registered users for its Miva Merchant product, and over 85,000 storefront registrations.
FindWhat goes cold on Espotting deal
: Performance-based internet marketing firm FindWhat.com announced that it is renegotiating the terms of its merger agreement with European firm Espotting to reduce its purchase price.
FindWhat.com skids on merger worries, revised outlook: Fort Myers, Fla.-based FindWhat said that following a review of Espotting's financials, it's seeking to reduce its purchase price for the privately held British company.
FindWhat profits up as Espotting saga goes on: The company reported net income of $2.8m, up from $1.8m in the third quarter last year, on revenue that surged 62% to $17.8m.
Found What?: Excellent article on the Executive at FindWhat. After reading it I was less surprised by the little PPC distributor that grows by leaps and bounds. I expect no less from them.
FindWhat.com to Expand Keyword Matching: Paid search provider FindWhat.com plans to expand its keyword matching this month to help advertisers capture more search queries in a move that could drive up the cost of some keywords
FindWhat & eSpotting Search Advertising Firms Merge : FindWhat.com, a pay-per-click search engine advertising firm... finally announced today the signing of an amended agreement to merge with privately-owned ESPOTTING MEDIA INC.
FindWhat to Integrate Pay Per Call Advertising in Paid Search Listings : In addition, Pay Per Call™ provides current online businesses another advertising vehicle to generate sales, with the actual connection occurring offline, over the phone, directly with the merchant.
Espotting sees revenues leap as it moves into profit: The number of active advertisers receiving targeted traffic from the Espotting Network was 22,700 in the first quarter of 2004, compared with 20,000 in the third calendar quarter of 2003
FindWhat Integrates Miva Marketplace: Paid search provider FindWhat.com today announced that it has integrated the Miva Marketplace product of its Miva e-commerce division with its own pay-per-click keyword offering
Lycos
Terra Lycos posts record loss: A Reuters poll of six Internet analysts predicted that Terra would post a net loss of 428m euros (£292m), an earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) loss of 119m euros (£81m) based on sales of 618m euros (£422m).
Terra Lycos fails to grow in first quarter: Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos said Wednesday that sales fell sharply in the first quarter, partly due to the loss of a major advertising contract.
Lycos InSite Re-Launches With New Look and Easier Submission Interface: Lycos has updated the actual submission interface to make it more “user friendly”. Their URL Suggestion Tool allows anyone to quickly determine which URLs of their website should be submitted.
Lycos sports 'for sale' sign: Terra Lycos is considering spinning off its Lycos Web site, which would undo a merger struck at the height of the dot-com boom
Spain's Terra has four offers for Lycos: "We are weighing the sale of Lycos. No decision has been taken yet but Terra has four offers and we expect a decision will be taken in the short term," the source told Reuters
