Overture Australia - When is it going to happen?

Perhaps End of 2003 according to Article.

[keeper]

After reading some posts skirting around the subject, I went on a bit of a rumour search.
I came up with the following article from australia.internet.com:
http://australia.internet.com/r/article/jsp/sid/13286

Overture is also expected to launch a local paid search service in 2003

Does anyone "in the know" have an accurate date? I'm assuming they are going to use the Altavista Australia site as its wedge into the market...

[keeper]

Good article on the recent search engine aquisitions from a Jupiter Analyst:
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/scevak/archives/001129.html

Talks about Overture considering Australia and the current situation of the Australian search market.

[merlin78]

keeper > nice article. Thanks for passing this on. :)

[Shak]

The company, which last month agreed to be acquired by Yahoo! for $1.6bn, said it has opened an office in Sydney and appointed former VP of AltaVista Asia Pacific, Mel Bohse, to head up the new Australian business.

http://www.netimperative.com/cmn/viewdoc.jsp?cat=news&docid=BEP1_News_0000056066

been some time coming...

Shak

[keeper]

At long last :) - this should shake things up a bit:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030811/115198_1.html

My money is on Looksmart losing Yahoo, Answers and possibly Ninemsn as syndication partners.

Instead of LS vs G in Australia --> its now
Yahoo vs LS vs G - with LS a probable third.

[kelvinhui]

agree with keeper

[percentages]

hmmmm....it is actually MS, Yahoo and Google the world over. L$ is dead in the water....the only question to be answered is how long it will take MS to dominate this market and how will they beat the Yahoo portal.

Whichever way you look at it MS will have 70%+ share, Yahoo will fight with Google for the remaining 30%.

Not gonna happen today....tomorrow...or next year...by 2007 it is a cert....IMHO :)

[jpalmer]

More of our hard earned heading O/S to line the pockets and support the lifestyle to which the [self censorsed for fear of retribution] have become accustomed ... sigh ...

[edited by: Woz at 7:56 am (utc) on Sep. 30, 2004]