Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Does this indicate that the whispers about MSN being near to launching their own paid inclusion, crawler & search engine results are true? Lycos provided their main search technology & results up till now.
UPDATE - LookSmart to lose key Microsoft deal, shares drop: "LookSmart to lose key Microsoft deal"
"MSN uses LookSmart's Directory products for the majority of its search results at MSN Search, then backfills with crawler results from search supplier Inktomi, Fetyko wrote in a recent report.

Kellerman said LookSmart just renewed its own distribution deal with Inktomi, which was recently purchased by MSN rival Yahoo."

"MSN is continuing to take paid listings from Overture and use Inktomi for some of its web search results."

Google

posted by Jen @ 5:44 AM

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