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LookSmart is an American search advertising, content management, [2] online media, and technology company. It provides search, machine learning and chatbot technologies [3] as well as pay-per-click and contextual advertising services. LookSmart also licenses and manages search ad networks as white-label products.
LookSmart – operated several vertical directories from 1995 to 2006. Lycos' TOP 5% – from 1995 until 2000 it aimed to list the Web's top 5% of Websites. Yahoo! Directory– first service that Yahoo! offered. Closed in December 2014. Yahoo! Kids – oldest online search directory for children, until its discontinuation as of April 30, 2013.
LookSmart is released. It competes with Yahoo! as a web directory, and the competition makes both directories more inclusive. December: Web search engine supporting natural language queries: Altavista is launched. This is a first among web search engines in many ways: it has unlimited bandwidth, allows natural language queries, has search tips ...
Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory launched by Brian Goler and Kevin Berk in 1999, and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000 for $20 million. Zeal combined the work of Looksmart's paid editors with that of volunteers who profiled websites and placed them in a hierarchy of subcategories.
Mother brand of Looksmart models. Muovo – Finnish plastic car maker, about 1:50 scale. Muky – Argentine reproductions of certain earlier Hot Wheels dies. Muscle Machines - Tooned 1:64 versions of mostly old muscle cars but formerly made 1:18 and 1:24 diecast in the past. Now owned by May Cheong Group. (Maisto)
FindArticles was founded in 2000 [8] as a partnership between LookSmart, which authored the search technology, and the Gale Group, which provided the articles for a fee. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] By early-August 2000, the FindArticles database contained more than 862,000 articles and by September 2000, the database contained more than 1 million articles.
LookSmart is the largest search engine to use this technique, which powers its Grub distributed web-crawling project. Wikia (now known as Fandom) acquired Grub from LookSmart in 2007. [5] This solution uses computers that are connected to the Internet to crawl Internet addresses in the background. Upon downloading crawled web pages, they are ...
Thornley made an attempt to buy LookSmart's search engine competitor Google during its early days [11] but founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rejected the offer. Thornley is a co-founder of the Goodstart Consortium - a social enterprise that owns the largest childcare network in the world (formerly called ABC Learning).