Evaluation of English and Spanish Health Information on the Internet

Table 2.2: Search Engines--Revenues and Advertising

Search Engine Company Information Info on Site Advertising Details
Alta Vista Majority owned company of CMGI, Inc.
Publicly Held
NYSE: CMGI
Revenues qtr ending 10/31/00: $366.1 m

Search and Portals business unit (AltaVista, iCAST, MyWay.com) Revenues qtr ending 10/31/00: $ 98 m

No specific information on generation of revenues or advertising revenues

Contact for info Per "DoubleClick" Advertising Site:

Keyword Targeting: allows advertisers to tie their banners to particular search terms (keywords) and therefore target their message to the appropriate audience
Categories: targets users who search by subject, with banners and sponsor tiles tailored to meet advertisers' objectives
Sponsorships: delivers high-profile positioning on homepages and results pages, for enhanced visibility and brand recognition (available for AltaVista, AltaVista/Subject Search categories as well as AltaVista Channels)
General Rotation: untargeted banners which appear on AltaVista's results pages
Home Page Badge: (230x33) can be targeted by geography, browser & time of day
Run of Site: untargeted banners delivered throughout AltaVista
AltaVista Channels: provide dynamic links to related content based on user's keywords and Navigation Bar tabs. Banners may be targeted to users of the following content: Live, Money, News, Sports, Travel, Career, Health, Entertainment, World, Technology, Women, and Real Estate

Ask Jeeves Publicly Held
NASDAQNM: ASKJ
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $29 m

Web Properties Group (Ask.com, DirectHit.com, AJKids.com) Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $15.8 m

Revenues generated from advertising, e-commerce, licensing to corporations

Advertising revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $8.0 m

Some pricing info present Text Sponsorship: bid for search topics; pay only when link is shown

Answer Link: editors assist in crafting questions; "answer" is given at advertisers site by direct link; Ask Jeeves leads user to further "explore" site

Content Modules: links (headline, text description, graphics) along right of page within topic area

Advertising Services: banners/buttons triggered by key words or categories

Dynamic Response: Similar to answer link, but advertiser messaging varies with user query

Shopping Guide: users interested in specific products are sent directly to a point of purchase on advertiser's site

Direct Hit Subsidiary of Ask Jeeves Some pricing info present Part of AskJeeves:

Text Sponsorship: bid for search topics on AskJeeves; pay only when link is shown

Advertising Services: banners/buttons triggered by key words or categories


Table 2.2: Search Engines--Revenues and Advertising (cont.)

Search Engine Company Information Info on Site Advertising Details
Excite Publicly Held
At Home Corporation
NASDAQ: ATHM
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $160.5 m

Revenues generated from media and advertising, subscriber network & services, international)

Advertising revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $77.7 mil

Present General Rotation

Channel Rotations

Individual Keywords

Keyword Phrases

Google Privately Held
Venture Capital Firms ($25 m -- 6/99): Sequoia Capital, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
Other inv: Stanford Univ., Andy Bechtolsheim
Ram Shriram
Present Premium sponsorship (top of page): Keyword & keyword phrasing: text-based ad appears at the top of a results page whenever the keyword purchased is included in user's search.
Categories: Advertisers can select the categories most appropriate to their business and Google will match the most relevant category ads to each user's search
AdWords Program -- For site owners (right side of page): Keywords: search must contain entire word;
Negative keywords: allows for elimination of unrelated keywords
Phrase Matches: queries must match the words in the phrase exactly
Go To Publicly Held
NASDAQ: GOTO
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $25.1 m

Revenues generated from search listing advertisements (90%) and banner ads (10%)

Advertising revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $25.1 m

Present Keyword: bid for relevant keywords

No information on banner advertising

Lycos Publicly Held
NASDAQ: LCOS
Revenues qtr ending 7/31/00: $88 m
Terra Lycos (TRLY) as of 10/31/00
Revenues generated from advertising, e-commerce and other

Advertising revenues qtr ending 7/31/00: $56.9 m

Present Banners
Keyword Advertising
Key Phrase Advertising
Shopping Network
Travel Network
Lycos Community Offerings: Run of service advertising for Chat, Email, Personal Guide
Targeted Navigational Services: Road maps, people finder, etc.

Table 2.2: Search Engines--Revenues and Advertising (cont.)

Search Engine Company Information Info on Site Advertising Details
Metacrawler Infospace
Publicly Held
NASDAQ: INSP
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $57.7 m

Consumer services revenues generated from advertising, subscriber fees and transaction fees

No specific information on advertising revenues

Present Banners, buttons
MetaCrawler Results Sidebar
MetaCrawler Suggests
Keyword Banner
Shopping Partners
Keyword Textlink

Jukebox
Audio Sidebar Button
Keyword Targeted Banners
Favorite Searches Sponsorship

Northern Light Privately Held
Investors: Reuters Group PLC, Hewlett-Packard, Times Mirror Co.
Present Run of Site: ad banners are located at the top of the pages are displayed in rotation across all advertising pages.
Site Specific: ad is displayed on specific, highly trafficked sections of the site
Category
Keywords and phrases

Keyword Text Links: each link can be keyword coded allowing textual information to pop up alongside the search results for that word
Skyscraper Ads: Larger ad space to convey a complex message, technical topic, etc.
E-mail News Alerts: daily email on news stories in customer's interest area
Special Edition/Micro Site: "micro-site" offering unbiased third party view of information resources and live updates of particular interest to a target audience
Sponsorships: customized marketing solutions
Yahoo Publicly Held
NASDAQ:YHOO
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $295.5 m

Revenues generated from banner and sponsorship advertisements, business services, e-commerce, barter transactions

Advertising revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $265.9 m

None
e-mail sales
Advertising information from Yahoo Fusion Marketing site
Banners
Buttons/text links
Event marketing (Online and offline)
Sponsorships
Promotions (front page, custom, multi-sponsor, etc.)
Streaming ads (audio and video)
Enhanced ad units
CPM = cost per thousand impressions
CPC = cost per click


Table 2.2: Search Engines--Revenues and Advertising (cont.)

Search Engine Company Information Info on Site Advertising Details
Yupi Privately Held

No specific information on generation of revenues or advertising revenues

Present Preferential listing in Yupi categories
Individual Keywords
Focused impressions
QuePasa Publicly Held
NASDAQ: PASA
Revenues qtr ending 9/31/00: $966,581

Major Investors: Telemundo

Revenues generated from banner and sponsorship advertisements, e-commerce, strategic agreements with other e-services companies

Contact for info Banners
Sponsorships
TeRespondo Privately Held

No specific information on generation of revenues or advertising revenues

Present
Contact for pricing
Answer Link: editors assist in crafting questions; "answer" is given at advertisers site by direct link; TeRespondo leads user to further "explore" site
Yahoo en Español Publicly Held
NASDAQ:YHOO
Revenues qtr ending 9/30/00: $295.5 m

Advertising revenues for qtr ending 9/30/00: $265.9 million

Revenues generated from banner and sponsorship advertisements, business services, ecommerce, barter transactions

None
e-mail sales
Advertising information from Yahoo Fusion Marketing site
Banners
Buttons/text links
Event marketing (Online and offline)
Sponsorships
Promotions (front page, custom, multi-sponsor, etc.)
Streaming ads (audio and video)
Enhanced ad units
CPM = cost per thousand impressions
CPC = cost per click


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