Overture to launch Down Under

[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.

[netimperative.com...]

been some time coming...

Shak

[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:
[australia.internet.com...]

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:
[weblogs.jupiterresearch.com...]

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

[merlin78]

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

[keeper]

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

[biz.yahoo.com...]

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.

[edited by: Woz at 5:11 am (utc) on Aug. 12, 2003]
[edit reason] just tidying up ... [/edit]

[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 ...