Chief Marketer Staff

• FINDWHAT.COM

  FindWhat.com, Ft. Myers, FL www.findwhat.com Pay-for-placement links provider to over 200 sites, including CNET’s Search.com, Excite, Webcrawler, MetaCrawler,

• DMOZ OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT (ODP)

  Netscape Communications Corp., Mountain View, CA www.dmoz.org Directory managed and compiled by volunteer editors. Owned by Netscape (and thus AOL Time

• eBay Acquires PayPal For $1.3 Billion

  PayPal Inc. shareholders have approved a $1.3 billion merger with online auctioneer eBay , according to news reports. Earlier, San Jose, CA-based eBay

• YAHOO!

  Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA www.yahoo.com Both human-edited directory (the first Web directory) and spider-based results from Google (

• ALTAVISTA

  AltaVista Co., Palo Alto, CA www.altavista.com Search engine with its own crawler and directory content from LookSmart. PAID INCLUSION Express Inclusion

• Online Banking Projected to Grow 23.3%

  Online banking is projected to grow 23.3% this year, according to a new report from eMarketer. The report, Interactive Banking: Integrating Online into

• New Products

  Vertis has launched an enhanced version of its Media Research & Planning System. The software is now Web based, and allows users to integrate the solution

• DR PEPPER/SEVEN UP POURS FULL GLASS

  Plano, TX-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up hopes to rally bottlers behind umbrella promos that leverage its full portfolio to get better retail display support.

• DIRECT Listline

  Business Executives These 554,998 executives in privately held and publicly traded companies have authority to specify products and services, as well

• Isley Rejoins Direct Media

  Susan Isley has rejoined Direct Media Inc. as senior account executive, consumer brokerage division. Most recently, Isley served as senior circulation