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SEO News 2002
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- Several top US executives are preparing to leave Lycos
siting too much control being exerted by the Madrid, Terra
office.
- Massive Denial of Service (DOS) attack occurs on Monday,
October 22, slowing Internet traffic to a crawl for several
hours. No group or organization has claimed responsibility
for the attacks.
- MetaCrawler, one of the original meta search tools on
the Internet has decided to add Google to its list of search
engine and directories that it crawls for results.
- Chinese officials have banned Google by blocking Chinese
websurfers for fear of the dangers of public knowledge under
a communist regime.
- EuropeMedia.Net, a European news portal announces that
just over 10-percent of the world's population has access
to the Internet.
- Yahoo and Google get silly with each other and offer each
other extremely low-ball bids.
- AOL announces that it plans to start drawing search results
from Google's database.
- Lycos, owned by Madrid based Terra Lycos struggles to
survive in July. The largest advertiser, Bertelsmann, which
accounts for 40-percent of Lycos's advertising revenue is
supposed to pull its advertising this week.
- Board members, Robert Ryan, Mariann Byerwalter and James
Tananbaum quit the board at LookSmart this week, throwing
the company into a new round of turmoil.
- Overture announces new sponsored site listings at Yahoo!
and MSN. However, Overture will no longer supply sponsored
sites for AOL, AOL.COM and Compuserve.
- VeriSign has been successfully sued by BulkRegister,
over deceptive advertising practices. This has forced VeriSign
to discontinue sending 'Domain expiration notices' to BulkRegister
clientele.
- HotBot no longer offers a free submit option.
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