VeriSign stands to gain financially, take a look at this excerpt from an AP news blurb published yesterday:
Ben Turner, VeriSign's vice president for naming services, described the service as a way to "improve overall usability of the Internet."
People mistype ".com" and ".net" names some 20 million times daily, Turner said, and internal studies show "the vast majority of users prefer a page like this than what they are getting today." ... Currently, Site Finder sends lost Web surfers to both regular search results and pay-for-placement listings, which are marked as such. Turner said VeriSign was partnering with two search companies he would not name.
He would not disclose how much VeriSign would earn from those companies, with which it has revenue-sharing arrangements.
Anyone find out any details of the contracts which VeriSign has apparently signed to profit from this little venture? -rich
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Rich Braun wrote:
VeriSign stands to gain financially, take a look at this excerpt from an AP news blurb published yesterday: [...] Anyone find out any details of the contracts which VeriSign has apparently signed to profit from this little venture?
It looks like Overture is doing the paid listings: Compare http://sitefinder.verisign.com/spc?kw=Travel with http://www.overture.com/d/search/?Keywords=travel You can also see this by looking at the links on the results page. "www.expedia.com" is actually http://www3.overture.com/d/sr/?... And Inktomi is the provider of non-paid listings: Compare http://sitefinder.verisign.com/spc?sb=verisign+sucks with http://www.hotbot.com/default.asp?query=verisign+sucks Both Overture and Inktomi are now owned by Yahoo. Anyone with an Overture account can see what the high bids on the keywords Travel, Entertainment, Gambling, Shopping, Gifts, Computers, Autos, Insurance, Small Business, and Investing are now. From a SEC filing a while ago, I seem to recall that something near half of the money from each click goes back to the "search engine" in question, in this case Verisign. -- Aaron
At 12:07 PM 9/16/2003, Rich Braun wrote:
VeriSign stands to gain financially, take a look at this excerpt from an AP news blurb published yesterday:
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Anyone find out any details of the contracts which VeriSign has apparently signed to profit from this little venture?
No, but check this out: http://sitefinder.verisign.com/spc?sb=bulk+email&searchboxtype=2 http://sitefinder.verisign.com/spc?sb=bulk+mailers&searchboxtype=2 Not that I am shocked. ~Ben --- Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com> The River Internet Access Co. WA Operations Manager 1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com
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