I believe back in 2003. Actually Overture bought it, which is owned by Yahoo. http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2165241 http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/08-yahoo.html
Overture?? I think overture doesn't exist anymore.. Anyways, the other news was Microsoft was trying to buy Yahoo and Google opposed them.. Hehe..
Hehe... Google will surely be alarmed when Yahoo and Microsft are combine. 2 big companies combined... One question comes to my mind is what will happen to MSN? Will it be dumped and replace by yahoo? Poor thing...
Yahoo! bought Overture. Type in www.Overture.com and see where you end up. They were PPC pioneers, at least a couple years before Google... I started using them when they were still GoTo.com - that is a rare case of a major company / service changing domain names. http://www.news.com/GoTo-gambles-with-new-name/2100-1023_3-272795.html http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum33/1869.htm