Disney Commutes Go.com's Death Sentence

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LOS ANGELES — Go.com will be staying, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday, announcing that rather than close the Web portal it will maintain the site using a former rival’s technology to power its search engine.

Disney (DIS) launched a redesigned site quietly last Wednesday, replacing its extensive series of articles and its powerful Infoseek search engine with links to content on other Disney-owned sites, including abcnews.com and espn.com.

In place of Infoseek – which Disney acquired in 1998 in order to launch its Go.com




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