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September 12, 2003
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Google-owned Web log-creation site Blogger is eliminating its paid version and folding premium functions into its free service, bucking a trend toward making people pay for Web site extras.
Pay-per-click (PPC) buyout wins US antitrust OK...
The U.S. Department of Justice has approved the plan for Yahoo! to acquire Overture. Stockholder approval is the only condition left to be satisfied in the $1.63 billion deal. Overture shareholders will vote on the proposed buyout on Oct. 7.
If you've been reading some of the reports recently you would have heard that the search engines are having a shouting contest over who has the largest index. Of course everyone should know it's not the size of your index but how you use it that really counts.
Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Watch) has put together a good listing of the bragging wars over the past few years.