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Espotting
Offices: London, England
Espotting is one of Europe's leading paid listings providers and a division
of FindWhat.com. Espotting operates an online marketplace where advertisers
bid against each other for prominence within paid listings that Espotting
delivers across its network, with advertisers only paying for traffic delivered
to their websites. Espotting advertisers include British Airways, Norwich
Union Direct, eBay and Lastminute.com. Espotting distributes its paid listings
through a diverse network of partners. Partners include Europe's leading
websites, search engines and directories, as well as hundreds of vertically
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| Exalead
Offices: New York, England
Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is a global provider
of software that is designed to simplify all aspects of information search
and retrieval for organizations of all sizes. Based on the first and only
unified technology platform for desktop, intranet or Web search, Exalead
offers easier deployment, administration and use than any other enterprise-type
search software. |
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| FindWhat
Offices: Fort Myers, Florida
FindWhat creates and offers proprietary performance-based and commerce-enabling
marketing services that help businesses of all sizes throughout the business
cycle in reaching prospects, converting prospects to customers and then
retaining those customers. Its marketing division creates online marketplaces
where buyers are introduced to sellers at exactly the right moment, when
they are searching for products and services on the Internet; this introduction
is based on a bid-for-position, pay-per-click and pay-per-call (US only),
keyword-targeted advertising service. |
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Gigablast
Offices: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Founded in 2000, Gigablast was created to index up to 200 Billion pages
with the least amount of hardware possible. Gigablast provides large-scale,
high-performance, real-time information retrieval technology for partner
sites. The company offers a variety of features including topic generation
and the ability to index multiple document formats. This search delivery
mechanism gives a partner "turn key" search capability and the capacity
to instantly offer search at maximum scalability with minimum cost. |
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| Google
Search
Offices: San Francisco, California
Google draws on its proprietary search technology and fully automated options
to provide Google WebSearch™ and Google SiteSearch™. Google WebSearch enables
destination sites and portals to offer Google's world-class web search services
to their own users and to sell advertising into the results they generate.
Google SiteSearch enables site visitors to quickly navigate information
on a company's extranets and public web sites, thereby increasing customer
loyalty and reducing the need for customer support. |
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| HotBot
Offices: Waltham, Massachusetts
HotBot is an operating unit of Terra Lycos, a global Internet group, with
a presence in 40 countries in 19 languages. The group, which resulted from
Terra Networks, S.A's acquisition of Lycos in October of 2000, operates
some of the most widely visited Web sites in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin
America, and is the largest access provider in Spain and Latin America. |
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| Info.com
Offices: Waltham, Massachusetts
From one search query, Info.com provides results from 14 search engines
and pay-per-click directories, including Google, AltaVista, Looksmart, Fast,
Overture, Inktomi, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves. Info.com offers consumer friendly
search tools that help connect Web users with the information they want.
Other features include Yellow and White pages, weather, pictures and maps.
By aggregating all the advertisers from 14 search engines, Info.com offers
more of them than any major search destination, with some 350,000. |
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| Local.com
Offices: Irvine, California
Local.com, a leading local search engine, consistently ranks in the Top
100 in US website traffic according to Internet research firm, comScore.
Powered by the company's patent-pending Keyword DNA™ and local web indexing
technologies, Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search
results. These results include special offers from local businesses, reviews
from other users, local businesses' website links, maps, driving directions
and more. |
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Looksmart
Offices: San Francisco, California
LookSmart is a leader in commercial search services and a developer of innovative
web search solutions. Combining award-winning technology, editorial expertise,
and community-based initiatives, LookSmart provides users with highly relevant
search results, while delivering targeted sales leads to online businesses.
LookSmart results reach Internet users worldwide through top portals, ISPs,
and search services including Lycos, InfoSpace, CNET, and LookSmart.com. |
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| Lycos
Offices: Waltham, Massachusetts
Lycos is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., a leading
Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence
throughout the Asian markets. Lycos creates and operates search, community
and technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com,
Tripod.com, Angelfire.com and Quote.com. |
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