Say goodbye to Overture as we know it

NameClerk · Jan 16, 2007

I've seen this mentioned in another thread but wasn't sure if this is common knowledge or not. It looks like WordTracker will be getting a subscription boost.

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/01/09/the-death-of-overture/

To summarize: Exact figures for search terms will be phased out and replaced by a popularity bar. This will make the "Overture + extension" indicator a thing of the past.

-Bill

shockie · Jan 16, 2007

... the bars are better than nothing i guess... any idea when the panama update will completely eliminate overture?

domaincollector · Jan 16, 2007

wow, this a big change. Its similar to Google's setup on adwords. I think I have seen those bars before....

Has wordtracker worked well for anyone?

Jeff
domaincollector

YesBrilliant · Jan 16, 2007

Yeah, I heard about it, too.

Good time for a new competitor to enter the market.

harkster · Jan 16, 2007

Guess it is time to make a donation to WT for new servers so I don't have to work so hard to read those damn letters/numbers.

There are some things about WT that I like such as separating singular and plural. Wish it returned more results.

fonzie_007 · Jan 16, 2007

Yahoo has been getting their arse's handed to them by Google lately. I still am skeptical that Yahoo's changes will help increase their success with online marketing.

NameClerk · Jan 16, 2007

YesBrilliant said:
Good time for a new competitor to enter the market.

But whos search data will this new competitor be using?

Probably not Yahoo or Googles. I believe WordTracker compiles its search data from meta engines like DogPile.com.

-Bill

YesBrilliant · Jan 16, 2007

NameClerk.com said:
But whos search data will this new competitor be using?

That is exactly the point why No other competitor has entered the market already.

ahtum · Jan 16, 2007

Overture was an important tool for me

cache · Jan 17, 2007

I don't understand why yahoo does not care much about overture.

IconPacks · Jan 17, 2007

Perhaps Ask.com or Live.com could come out with a similar tool to fill the gap?

casperl · Jan 17, 2007

Interesting news. I hope Overture will still be available for free..

1rrr1 · Jan 18, 2007

Arg i loved selling those OVT w/ext names

klm390 · Jan 26, 2007

domaincollector said:
Has wordtracker worked well for anyone?

Jeff
domaincollector

I always used the Wordtrack & OVT side by side tool at Digital Point. I like the WT because of the singular/plural separation but the list is kinda short as mentioned above.

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texasgamer · Jan 27, 2007

I used the Wordtracker & Overture side by side tool also. I will now feel lost without Overture. I hope someone developes another tool to fill the void.

Brujah · Jan 27, 2007

If it's gone, someone should buy up old overture databases. Should be pretty valuable still even though it's not current.

cybertonic · Jan 27, 2007

Hi,

I can maybe give you access to a tool giving you the monthly search popularity usage of a requested keyword.

Results are really better and most accurate than wordtracker that is only able to give results for keywords having a significant search popularity.

But first I first need to check if I can legally do that and how much it will cost us.

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matt_bodis · Jan 27, 2007

Is it me or is overture not working today, AT ALL!? I have used many proxy servers and none of them can connect. Is it the end of ovt?

techie474 · Jan 27, 2007

inventory.overture.com working for anyone?

mirrorcube · Jan 27, 2007

I would think they would try to make it a pay service the way it is. Just to scrap it and convert it to a non specific bar ranking system is confusing. Maybe they have a grand marketing scheme they think will work or maybe they don't want to deal with some sort of litigations. Either way this sucks, a great tool looks like its going down the drain.

wadodger · Jan 28, 2007

techie474 said:
inventory.overture.com working for anyone?

Nope. Still getting a look at bid prices, but search numbers are gone.

cache · Jan 28, 2007

looks like ovt is gone

mis_chiff · Jan 28, 2007

This was a great site

and I have found nothing "like" it

I'm sure it was really popular - why'd it come down?

cybertonic · Jan 29, 2007

We have keyword popularity tool that get realtime data from 180 search engines:

PopularSearches.com

This beta tool is free for a limited time.
We are still discussing last legal details before go to production and move it to load balancers servers to improve speed and can serve a high volume of queries.

You can test it and drop me a note with your comments.

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IconPacks · Jan 29, 2007

cybertonic said:
We have keyword popularity tool that get realtime data from 180 search engines:

PopularSearches.com

This beta tool is free for a limited time.
We are still discussing last legal details before go to production and move it to load balancers servers to improve speed and can serve a high volume of queries.

You can test it and drop me a note with your comments.

...

Interesting... how old is the data? is it limited to monthly data or all-time? Also are you at liberty to list the search engines it is sourced from?

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