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Overture To Buy AltaVista

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-done-with-the-overtures dept.

Nate writes "Overture announced that they bought AltaVista today for $140M in cash and stock. This follows closely on the heels of Yahoo's purchase of Inktomi. Considering the significant financial muscle of Yahoo and Overture, I hope that Google can continue to maintain their lead. For those of you who aren't familiar with Overture, they are the 800-pound gorilla in the pay-for-placement listing market. When you search in Yahoo, those Sponsor Matches at the top are provided by Overture."

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  1. The Corporate version of domain squatters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    thats all Overture are, you know just like those bogus search sites where "casinos" and "finance" seem to be the most popular searches and when exiting you get a flurry of popups, less the popups i dont really see any difference between them anymore, both are just as bad (as all the paid placement search engines are)

    the only difference is the offices are larger at Altavista