Pioneer in Internet Filtering Software Adds Significant Enhancement With First-Ever Porn-Filtered Search Engine Feature.
LookSmart Gains New Member on Board of Directors
LookSmart today announced that its board of directors has appointed Gary Wetsel as a member of the board on September 15, 2004.
HighBeam Research Announces Partnership with LookSmart
HighBeam Research announced today a new agreement with LookSmart that makes more than one million premium articles from the HighBeam Research Library archive accessible via LookSmart’s FindArticles service.
LookSmart Releases Second Quarter Results
Search engine LookSmart has released their second quarter financial report of 2004. The report finds that they have exceeding announced company expectations. LookSmart reported revenue of $21.3 million for the second quarter 2004, which is ahead of its prior guidance of $18.0 million to $20.0 million. This includes $1.7 million of revenue from MSN and $2.2 million of revenue from discontinued international operations.
100.com Joins The LookSmart Family
A recently launched search engine called 100.com has joined the ranks of LookSmart. The partnership calls for LookSmart to provide directory listings and bid-for-placement distribution network in its search results.
LookSmart Partners With Cal For Search Services
The Cal Athletic Department announced a partnership with California based search engine LookSmart to develop a branded search engine for the Cal Athletics department that will support the university’s athletic programs. This partnership will also provide search services for students and alumni.
LookSmart Acquires NetNanny
Search engine LookSmart announced yesterday that it had acquired the rights to NetNanny for approximately $5 million in cash and stocks. NetNanny is an online filter used for filtering out websites that have questionable or adult content.
Interview With Dakota Sullivan of LookSmart
Vice President of LookSmart, Dakota Sullivan, is apparently a very busy man. Nevertheless, he finally took time out to be interviewed by Web Rank CEO Kalena Jordan. In the interview, Mr Sullivan reveals how the Yahoo/Inktomi deal will affect LookSmart, the new features LookSmart will be introducing for Small Business Listings customers shortly and why he thinks WiseNut is a better search engine partner for the major portals than Google:
Why Is MSN Still Showing LookSmart Results?
After noticing the LookSmart directory results still in MSNsearch, I wrote to the guys at LookSmart to get some details.
LookSmart goes Pay-per-Click
On April 9th, Looksmart publicly announced to the world that they had, as of that day, made the transformation from human edited directory, to a pay-per-click search engine. Shortly after, we also received a phone call from them explaining that since our company SubmitExpress.com is a valued partner of LookSmart they wanted to tell us about their new program first hand. They spent about half hour with us going over the details of the new program and also informed us that we will no longer receive commissions on referrals to them though our site and were asked to remove their banners.