Industry News

PLATO proves AOL wrong
AOL patent may become one of the shortest lived in history

Simpsons' fans get e-mails from Homer
Thousands of Simpsons fans' have got e-mails - from Homer himself!

From the BBC

Overture and Freeserve news
Freeserve has renewed its multi-year agreement with Overture UK as the Web site's exclusive provider of paid search listings

Ask Jeeves UK plans 7-day PFI
The service 'will be available shortly'

Tiscali acquires Airtelnet Spain
In a transaction valued at EUR 9.86 million, Tiscali has acquired Vodafone's fixed ISP Spanish operation

Online marketing takes the lead
Lower costs and higher returns make New Media campaigns the smart marketing choice according to this years NOP Marketing Survey.

From BrandRepublic

Yahoo! confirms recent Paid Listings tests
Yahoo! confirmed yesterday that it has begun testing a new SERP display that incorporates additional paid listings from Overture Services

AOL expands pan-European deal with Overture
Overture's European operation is to provide search results to AOL Europe's search directories in the UK, Germany and France plus Netscape portals.

From BrandRepublic:

More IM criticism
Just how safe is Instant Messenger? ZDNet looks at the latest report

Yahoo! launches 'Operation Batchelor'
Yahoo gets all slushy