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Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.
Yahoo Search BOSS is a service that allows developers to build search applications based on Yahoo's search technology. [99] Early Partners in the program include Hakia, Me.dium, Delver, Daylife and Yebol. [100] In early 2011, the program switched to a paid model using a cost-per-query model from $0.40 to $0.75 CPM (cost per 1000 BOSS queries).
SearchMe was a visual search engine based in Mountain View, California. It organized search results as snapshots of web pages — an interface similar to that of the iPhone's and iTunes's album selection. [1] [2] In July 2009, the company lost funding and the search engine went offline. [3]
In 2003, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the company was acquired by Yahoo! for $241 million. The company's name, pronounced "INK-tuh-me", was derived from a Lakota legend about the trickster spider Iktomi, known for his ability to outsmart larger adversaries. [1] The tri-color nested cube logo was created by Tom Lamar in 1996.
In 1998, Infoseek was the first internet company to develop and launch behavioral targeting via its UltraMatch targeting algorithms. [citation needed] In 1999, Infoseek engineer Li Yanhong moved to Beijing, China and co-founded the search engine Baidu. [1] In February 2001, Disney decided to cancel the service and lay off all staff.
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AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.