Originally branded as GoTo.com, they rebranded themselves as Overture Services Inc in Oct 2001. They were the first company to successfully provide paid search placement. They worked with MSN and Yahoo! and went on to acquire AltaVista and AllTheWeb. In 2003 Overture was purchased by Yahoo!

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