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Yahoo! Goes Google, MetaCrawler Goes Google, Fast Implements Macromedia SDK, and Fast Named in Privacy Violation Lawsuit with DoubleClick - Search Engines News and Articles - October 10, 2002

Thursday, October 10, 2002, 7:42am
Yesterday Yahoo! began transitioning to a completely new search method.  Now Yahoo! searches yield a mixture of Google listing and Overture paid listings.  Now Google is providing the search results to Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, Google, iWon, Compuserve, InfoSpace's network of Meta search engines (including Excite.com, DogPile.com, WebCrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and InfoSpace.com), and many others.

Google is rapidly becomming the only game in town.

Monday, September 23, 2002, 9:00am
There's more news about Fast/AllTheWeb.com, this time involving DoubleClick.  If you've been reading the news for the past months, you are already aware that DoubleClick was sued for privacy violation issues, and that DoubleClick settled the lawsuit.  Well, now DoubleClick and Fast/AllTheWeb.com are named together in a complaint filed with the Norweigan government for violating the privacy of visitors to the Fast/AllTheWeb.com website.  Stefanie Olsen of CNET writes about it in the article below.

Search firm takes heat for sharing data
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 20, 2002, 12:49 PM PT

Friday, September 13, 2002, 8:00am
Fast/AllTheWeb.com is the first major search engine to implement the Macromedia Software Developers Kit (SDK), which enables search engines to index the content of flash files.

Press Release: FAST UNVEILS MACROMEDIA FLASH SEARCHING CAPABILITY ON ALLTHEWEB AND TO ITS PORTAL CUSTOMERS
FAST is the first major Web search technology provider to offer searching of Macromedia Flash content and applications
OSLO, Norway, 12 September 2002

Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 8:54pm
Today Google announced that it has spread its search results even farther across the web.  Beginning today, Google search results will appear on MetaCrawler, and by the end of the month will appear across InfoSpace's network of meta search engines, including Excite, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, and InfoSpace.  The deal includes Googles search results and Google's Sponsored Links Program results.  This could be terrific news for InfoSpace, as it could dramatically improve their users' experience.