IAR: Overture Expanding Globally With MSN Korea

Overture Services said Tuesday it would expand its deal with Microsoft to provide commercial search listings for MSN Korea.

The deal calls for Overture to provide paid listings through MSN Search Pane and MSN's site in Korea. The Search Pane deal last until December 2003; the MSN site deal expires in December 2004. […]

"Our partners there understand that Google is a competitor and out to get them," said Johannes Larcher, Overture International's general manager.

He said Overture stresses to partners that its site does not compete for search traffic, unlike Google's.