Propeller.com Spinning to a Stop
Propeller was the new name for NetScape's social news experiment, a project which first emerged out of AOL as the killer app for the Netscape portal and originally led by Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc.
Propeller was the new name for NetScape's social news experiment, a project which first emerged out of AOL as the killer app for the Netscape portal and originally led by Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc.
Users going to Netscape.com will currently still find the social news site; however, they will soon be redirected to the new Netscape portal that is already available. A look at the new portal site suggests that the new blend may have a lot to...
After selling Weblogs, Inc.for an estimated $30 million, he hung around AOL long enough to be handed a plum assignment: turn Netscape.com into a social news site. Other VC firms are nervously looking on, too, hoping their public pronunciations of...
Netscape Search Inserts Netscape News Above Web Results - Netscape Search has gained a new "Netscape.com results" section at the top of the page that shows you top voted stories from the Netscape community news service.
Netscape Search Inserts Netscape News Above Web Results - Netscape Search has gained a new "Netscape.com results" section at the top of the page that shows you top voted stories from the Netscape community news service.
Search Inserts Netscape News Above Web Results From what Jason says and I can see, the big difference is that there's a new "Netscape.com results" section at the top of the page that shows you top voted stories from the Netscape community news...
Now AOL is trying to revive its flagging Netscape brand by turning it into a Digg-clone or Slashdot 3.0, if you will. Netscape SearchCast, June 15, 2006: You Got Digg In My Netscape; When NYT Met SEO;
Web Users to Make News on Netscape Relaunch talks about the gamble that AOL is making in possibly losing the 11.2 million people who visit the site each month, if they can no longer have the portal features they want.
Netscape® Music, CompuServe® Music, AIM® Music, ICQ® Music, Winamp® and AOL will be the first major Web portal or search engine to provide its users with AOL.com Web portal and AOL Search," said Alex Blum, Vice President, Audience
The engines were 1stBlaze, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, CNET's Search.com, Google, InfoSpace Web Search, Lycos Network, MSN Search, My Search, My Way Search, Netscape Search, Overture, Web Search and Yahoo Search.
Sprinks will be powering contextual ad placement on AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape, CompuServe and AOL Instant Messenger. More news on Netscape's Netcenter plans, including information on launching its own branded service and stats saying that half...
AOL announces it will purchase Netscape in a $4 billion stock swap, with the online company taking over Netscape's portal site and browser operations, and Sun taking over Netscape's business software operations.
Netscape Bets Portal Users Will Pay to Play Industry Standard, Oct.no longer online -- Netscape is planning to charge for extra services offered through its portal. Why do Netscape and Microsoft even have a shot in the portal wars?
Google has been selected by AOL to provide editorial search results and paid listings to AOL's various search properties in the United States, including AOL Search, Netscape Search and CompuServe Search.
I've written before that Microsoft versus Google and Yahoo is not the same as Microsoft versus Netscape. Google isn't a portal, and that's been its strength. But if it needs to be a portal, it seems short-sighted to assume it can't compete with Yahoo.
Finally, unlike with Netscape, Microsoft isn't getting a headstart by licensing technology to build on. Some observers see Microsoft's coming battle as only involving Google and thus assume there will be a repeat of that other classic battle...
In 1998 we did a project called NewHoo, which was acquired by Netscape/AOL, and is now called the Open Directory Project (ODP). Our team left Netscape/AOL in 2002, and rather than using human labor again, we wanted to explore emerging AI...
I've written before (http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/3308131#nyt) that Microsoft versus Google and Yahoo is not the same as Microsoft versus Netscape. Lycos US, one of the web's first search engines and a powerhouse of the...
The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals has ruled that a case Playboy filed against Netscape involving keyword-linked banner ads can go to trial. It's definitely made noises that it never wanted to be a full-fledged portal.
AOL launches Netscape ISP. Portal to Information About Military Conflicts. What search engines such as Google and portals such as Yahoo and AOL are doing to address these local search deficiencies is integrating more structured content (ala Yellow...