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October 30, 2005

LookSmart Launches 161 Vertical Sites

LookSmart has announced 161 vertical sites in 12 different categories. You can get to all the new categories at http://search.looksmart.com/; they categories range from vegetarian food to snow sports to open source. If you pick a category from the front...

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January 20, 2005

What's Ahead for Looksmart?

Search Engine Journal has a good roundup of Looksmart's missteps as well as some of the possibilities for the future....

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October 17, 2004

LookSmart Teams Up with Cal Bears

LookSmart has hooked up with the University of California, Berkeley to create CalBearsSearch.com, a search engine that splits generated ad revenue with Berkeley to support Cal athletics. Of course, if you want to search just Berkeley you've also got Google's...

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April 10, 2002

LookSmart Introduces Pay-Per-Click URL Inclusion Program

For the most part URL inclusion programs are fairly straightforward. You pay a fee, you get listed. In some cases, such as Yahoo's, the fee is yearly. But LookSmart is breaking new ground by introducing pay-per-click URL inclusion. There is...

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June 12, 2000

LookSmart Rescinds Policy

After my note about the new LookSmart policy, I got a note from someone at LookSmart saying that the paid submission process was a "pilot program that has ended." You can once again suggest sites for free at http://express.looksmart.com/?iUS&chan=looksmartft. If...

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June 05, 2000

LookSmart Stops Offering Free Listings?

SearchEngineWatch is reporting that LookSmart is no longer offering free listings in its directory (story at http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/00/06-looksmart.html.) "Currently, there is no free option at all for any type of site. Instead, sites must choose either a $199 "Express" option that...

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February 01, 2000

LookSmart New Zealand

LookSmart announced this morning that it has launched a new country-specific resource:LookSmart New Zealand at http://www.LookSmart.co.nz/ ....

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