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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.
Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory launched by Brian Goler and Kevin Berk in 1999, [1] and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000 for $20 million. [2] [3] Zeal combined the work of Looksmart's paid editors with that of volunteers who profiled websites and placed them in a hierarchy of subcategories.
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 ...
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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.
In early 1999, the site began to display listings from Looksmart, blended with results from Inktomi. For a short time in 1999, MSN Search used results from AltaVista instead. In 2004, Microsoft began a transition to its own search technology, powered by its own web crawler (called msnbot).
The site was founded by Mike Giles in 2003 and purchased by LookSmart in September 2004. [1] Diigo (a web annotation , social bookmarking & research tool website) bought it from LookSmart in exchange for equity.
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 ...