Microsoft hopes it will juice up the traffic on its search engine, ultimately improving how much it can earn from click advertising.
Early on, Davis says, much of the traffic to Lycos' search engine came from Yahoo!
The company already has a standalone product-search service that specializes in "hard" goods such as electronics and draws traffic from the main search engine.
Google argues that an acquisition, however, would not increase competition for online travel sites, as the search engine giant currently drives traffic to these sites and analyzes the data.
Last summer Blekko launched a search engine that has been gaining significant traffic by a war on useless Web sites.
He also outlined some radical ambitions for the next decade including reductions in road traffic and the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine.
Google France had said earlier that the plan "would be harmful to the internet, internet users and news websites that benefit from substantial traffic" that comes via Google's search engine.
Because search results can be so important to website traffic, considerable effort is spent trying to manipulate search engine results, artificially moving a web page up the rankings.
To draw traffic, they created an on-line medical search engine called Medsite.com, which reviews and rates medical and health-related Internet sites -- and was getting 250, 000 hits a month after six months.
To draw traffic, they created an on-line medical search engine called Medsite.com, which rates and reviews medical and health-related Internet sites -- and was getting 250, 000 hits a month after six months.
And Google App Engine automatically allocates more servers to your website as it gets more traffic, freeing you from having to manually order more servers to deal with demand spikes.
In an hour or so Spetter can get a 1, 000hp engine to set speed records and smoothly cruise through suburbia without overheating in traffic.
Mr. DANNY SULLIVAN (Editor, Search Engine Watch): Anybody who had a classified ad probably would want the traffic from Google coming to them.
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