All 1999 Releases
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LookSmart Chosen as Time Warner's Web Navigation Partner
12/16/99
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San Francisco, CA and New York, NY - December 16, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading global online navigation company, and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), the world's leading media company, today announced an agreement for LookSmart to syndicate its search and directory service across such Time Warner Web properties as CNN.com, CNNfn.com, CNN...
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LookSmart Ranked No. 1 Search and Navigation Site in Australia
12/13/99
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San Francisco, CA - December 13, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading global online navigation company, has been ranked the largest search and directory site in Australia and the second largest Web site in Australia, according to Internet research company, IMR Worldwide. LookSmart leads all other search sites in Australia, including Yahoo! Au...
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LookSmart and U S WEST Join Forces to Enrich U S WEST.net® Subscribers' Online Experience
11/22/99
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San Francisco, CA - November 22, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading online navigation service, today announced it is teaming with U S WEST to provide new, co-branded, content-rich launch pages, or portals, for U S WEST.net consumer and small business customers. The relationship gives U S WEST.net subscribers access to LookSmar...
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LookSmart and BT Form Global Web Navigation Joint Venture to Reach 31 Million Access Customers
11/10/99
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San Francisco, CA and London, England - November 10, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading online navigation company, and global communications powerhouse British Telecommunications (NYSE: BTY), today announced a joint venture to create and distribute portal services throughout Europe and Asia. The venture will rapidly set the standard for del...
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LookSmart and Inktomi Form Alliance to Power the Vertical Portal Market
11/08/99
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San Francisco, CA and Foster City, CA- November 8, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading online navigation company, and Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq: INKT), developer of scalable Internet infrastructure software, today announced an alliance to develop customized search directories for vertical Web portals and destination sites. The combination of Loo...
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LookSmart Reports Third Quarter 1999 Financial Results
10/27/99
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San Francisco, CA - October 27, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web search and navigation company, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 1999. Revenues of $13.3 million for the quarter increased 27% over revenues of $10.5 million for the previous quarter and increased 671% over revenues of $1.7 milli...
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LookSmart Chooses Fast Search & Transfer as Its Strategic Search Software Provider
10/25/99
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San Francisco and Westboro, MA, October 25, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search service (www.looksmart.com), and Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), an industry leader in Web search technology (www.fast.no), today announced the integration of FAST's search engine software into the LookSmart Web directory. The comprehensiv...
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LookSmart Announces International Expansion
10/07/99
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San Francisco, CA -October 7, 1999 - LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK) a leading Web directory and search service, today announced the opening of three new offices around the world: Copenhagen, Montreal and Amsterdam. The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of two new LookSmart products, including LookSmart C...
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LookSmart Leads All Major Portals in Annual Traffic Growth
09/22/99
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San Francisco, CA -September 22, 1999 - LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK) leads the portal industry in traffic growth, as reported in the September 20th The Industry Standard article, "Portal Traffic Trends." According to Media Metrix, LookSmart has achieved a 112% growth rate for the period December 1998 to July 1999. Snap.com is a distant second w...
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LookSmart Launches Major Consumer Branding Initiative
09/21/99
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San Francisco, CA -September 21, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search service, today launched its $20 million consumer branding initiative kicking off with television commercials airing in major markets nationwide. In addition to television commercials, the branding initiative includes a radio campaign scheduled to la...
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LookSmart Category-Search Directory Exceeds 1 Million Unique Web Sites
09/14/99
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San Francisco, CA - September 14, 1999 - LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search service, today announced that its directory contains 1,217,000 unique URLs. "Breaking the 1-million mark," stated Evan Thornley, CEO and co-founder of LookSmart, "validates our mission to create the most comprehensive collection of high-qua...
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LookSmart is Named One of the Most Important Companies of the Internet Economy by The Industry Standard Magazine
09/14/99
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San Francisco, CA - September 14, 1999 - LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK) joined Yahoo, Lycos, and Inktomi as portals and search engines shaping the Internet, as detailed in The Industry Standard's Top 100. "LookSmart's initial public offering in mid-August," the magazine stated, "quietly marked the end of an era in the Internet economy — th...
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LookSmart Moves to No. 7 Web Site in Latest Media Metrix Ranking Study
09/02/99
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San Francisco, CA - September 2, 1999 - LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search service, today announced that it is ranked 7th overall according to Media Metrix, which has begun releasing a weekly top 10 list of Web properties combining at home and at work use. "Ranking 7th underscores the mainstream consumer response t...
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LookSmart Ranked in the Top 15 by Recent Study
08/27/99
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LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search service, today announced that Media Life Magazine ranked LookSmart 13th among the Top 15 Web Properties on the Media Life Sticky Index. The Media Life Sticky Index, which ranks Web properties by tracking the amount of time a user spends on one site, using Nielsen/NetRatings' ranking data,...
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LookSmart To Syndicate Radio Programming to Online and Offline Partners
08/24/99
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San Francisco, CA - August 24, 1999 - LookSmart Radio — The Talk of the InternetTM (www.looksmartradio.com), one of the Internet's first talk radio programs and a component of LookSmart (Nasdaq: LOOK), is now available for free syndication to ISPs and Web sites looking to enhance their site and user loyalty with cont...
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LookSmart Ranks 11th Among Most Visited Web Properties
08/23/99
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San Francisco, Calif. - August 23, 1999 - LookSmart, Ltd. (Nasdaq: LOOK), a leading Web directory and search tool, today announced that it is ranked 11th among the Top 50 Digital Media/Web Properties, as listed by Media Metrix based on the number of unique users that visited LookSmart in July 1999. "Only six months ago LookSmart was ranked ...
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LookSmart Announces Initial Public Offering
08/20/99
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San Francisco, CA - August 20, 1999 - LookSmart, Ltd. (Nasdaq: LOOK) today announced the initial public offering of its common stock on the Nasdaq National Market under the trading symbol LOOK. The initial public offering price for the 7,700,000 shares offered by the company was $12.00 per share. The company has granted the underwriters an ...
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Excite@Home and LookSmart Expand Relationship
08/09/99
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Redwood City / San Francisco, CA - August 9, 1999 - Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), a global media company, has named LookSmart, one of the Internet's largest directories of quality Web sites, as the primary provider of directory content for Excite@Home. Under the expanded agreement, LookSmart will also provide directory content for the compani...
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LookSmart, PBS Enter Landmark TV and Web Agreement
08/02/99
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San Francisco, CA - August 2, 1999 - In the most far-reaching corporate underwriting deal in PBS history, LookSmart will underwrite five PBS programs for three years each. The agreement, executed by the PBS Sponsorship Group, includes sponsorship of SESAME STREET and MYSTERY! series, plus three new cooking shows. Cumulatively, the programs ...
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Esther Dyson,Internet Icon and Best-selling Author Tops LookSmart Radio Guest List For Week of July 5, 1999
07/07/99
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San Francisco, CA - July 7, 1999 - LookSmart Radio tackles the Internet issues that affect most users, issues like online romance, security on the Net, safe surfing for kids and teens, finding the best online travel deals, and the volatile market for Internet stocks. This week, Internet talk radio pioneer Mike Walter, host of LookSmart Radi...
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