Just in: Yahoo buys Overture. Wow, that means that internationally, there are really only two major players left: Google and Yahoo (which now owns the Inktomi, FAST (alltheweb) and Altavista indexes). Others run portals, but these two now own all major indexes and paid placement systems.
It will be interesting to watch what MSN Search will do. They started developing their own search engine, but now the major revenue channel is owned by a competitor, too.
Posted by seefeld at July 14, 2003 18:15