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Overture steals Freeserve from Google

Pay-per-click search firm Overture confirmed today that it has won a deal t

         

max_rk

4:28 pm on Aug 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Rumours that the UK ISP was planning to drop Google's search results for Fast Search & Transfer, which was acquired by Overture in April, started early last month but both parties refused to confirm the deal at the time.

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Bobby_Davro

5:16 pm on Aug 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I would imagine that it is more about cost than "relevancy and breadth of results"; Overture can probably afford to offer their in-house results cheaper than Google, since they already provide most of the advertising.

4eyes

5:26 pm on Aug 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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We already got wind of this in this thread [webmasterworld.com]

..guess its just further confirmation