[thelist] [News] Yahoo to start paid listings
Madhu Menon
webguru at vsnl.net
Wed Nov 14 17:13:42 CST 2001
From: http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/061292.htm
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Popular Internet gateway Yahoo! Inc. will start letting advertisers pay to
be listed in results generated by the site's search engine.
The new program, announced Tuesday, but which starts Thursday, is a
partnership with Overture Inc., formerly known as GoTo.com -- a search site
that has generated a surprising amount of profits by auctioning off the
rankings in its search engine.
Although the method displeases some consumer activists, many popular sites,
including MSN, AOL and AltaVista, also use Pasadena-based Overture's
service to fuel their search results.
Overture will supply five paid listings to Yahoo search pages, and will pay
Yahoo every time a user clicks on one of the links. Yahoo says the
advertisers' listings will be shown in clearly marked sections, separate
from other relevant findings.
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Madhu
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