At one point in 2001 Google officials even met with Overture to compare notes, Overture officials say.
To counter the uninvited overture, Overland implemented a poison-pill plan a week after Advanced Digital's announcement.
Once the retailers had retained counsel (and paid some legal bills), they made a settlement overture.
Overture's business is based on selling shopping information, unlike Google's more general variety of search.
Mr Vajpayee's peace overture in April 2003, while bold, was seen as having only modest chances.
The president mastered an overture solo that claimed our attention and yielded a star.
Its new best friend is Overture, which already provides search services for Microsoft's MSN online service.
That buy was a double score for Google--Applied Semantics had been selling those services to Overture.
Note the stirring battle depicted in the Overture, where trumpets blare and drums pound frenzied, syncopated rhythms.
Recently, Chihara grafted a new movement onto one of Schumann's lesser-heard works, the three-movement Overture, Scherzo and Finale.
By coincidence, in early 2000 Boger received an overture from Novartis Chief Daniel Vasella, who was interested in collaborating.
Humperdinck's opera is in three acts, and begins with a popular overture introducing many of the score's main themes.
MSN, which is less popular and probably in even greater need of Overture.
Hoffman starts this romantic musical journey with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.
Avi Gil, a former director-general of the Israeli foreign ministry, thinks that Israel needs to make a different overture.
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His overture was praised in Delhi as recognition of a common security threat.
Overture scientists frequently visit Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, to plan next-generation features.
Why Bush might be making an overture for the Marlins now could have a good deal to do with timing.
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If so, Facebook could be held over a barrel before any IPO in the way that Overture did with Google.
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In an overture to the Holocaust, the Nazis practised mass killings and ethnic cleansing in Poland in 1939 and 1940.
Luck, pluck and virtue prevail, a death sentence is lifted, and the irrepressible carnival spirit that drives the overture triumphs anew.
Valve is eschewing the sort of dramatic overture popular in the tech world, preferring instead to play a game of inches.
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In return, NATO "must respond with an equally decisive overture, " he said.
Overture stock has fallen 75% from its glory days in late 1999.
Its 73, 000 advertisers pay Overture when a user chooses the advertiser's offering.
Yahoo: This is supposedly the suitor whose unsolicited overture got Hulu seriously thinking about a sale, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Managers have been getting approached by a lot of job hunters so they may see any overture from you as having an agenda.
Google is not the only company offering such a service and has come late to a market pioneered by a company called Overture.
In fact, the resulting tube-like structure was but the overture to a major symphony of cat-related outdoor enclosures, a veritable pet Disneyland, if you will.
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In addition to the Internet taint, Overture suffers from fears that privately held Google--the dominant force in the search field--will run it out of business.
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