MSN Japan Does Deal With Overture

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From the article, [asia.internet.com]

Paid search leader Overture Services announced on Thursday a deal with MSN to provide commercial search results for its Japan properties, as Overture continues its push abroad.

The exclusive deal follows a six-month test agreement between MSN calls for Overture to provide paid search results for both MSN Search Pane, a search feature on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, and MSN's Japan site. The Search Pane agreement applies only when searches are done via MSN -- Explorer users can set it to search via other search providers, although MSN Search is the default -- and expires in December 2003. The MSN Japan agreement expires in December 2004. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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MSN announced last year on September 30, 2002 that they would be running tests on the then as yet to be opened Overture Japan (see the Overture Japan partners [webmasterworld.com] thread). This announcement formalizes that arrangement. MSN Japan was actually one of the earliest adopters of Overture Japan results.