Infoseek
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Infoseek was a very popular search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch. It was also known as "big yellow".
Infoseek was originally operated by the Infoseek Corporation, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.[1] Infoseek was bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1998, and the technology was merged with that of the Disney-acquired Starwave to form the Go.com network. Since then it has been replaced with Yahoo! search and is no longer in use.
Features
Infoseek featured a very complex system of search modifiers, including boolean modifiers such as the most basic "OR" and "NOT", parentheses, and quotes, up to being able to say that one wanted one word or phrase to appear within x number of words from another word or phrase.
Before being bought by Disney, Infoseek also offered a free web hosting package. It was free of advertising, and had no limit on the amount of file storage space that could be used. Advertising was added after the Disney purchase.
History
By September 1997, Infoseek boasted 7.3 million visitors per month.[2] It was bought by The Walt Disney Company in 1998, and the technology was merged with that of the Disney-acquired Starwave to form the Go.com network.
In 1999, Infoseek engineer Li Yanhong moved to Beijing, China and co-founded the search engine Baidu.
In February 2001, Disney made the decision to cancel the service and lay off the entire staff. Eventually,[when?] the hosting service was shut down.
In 2001 Bernt Wahl, Andy Bensky and 15 software engineers -- Infoseek employees -- led a management buyout attempt from Disney.
Infoseek's Ultraseek Server software technology, an enterprise search engine product, was sold in 2000 to Inktomi. Under Inktomi, Ultraseek Server was renamed "Inktomi Enterprise Search". In December 2002 (prior to Yahoo's acquisition of Inktomi), the Ultraseek product suite was sold to a competitor Verity Inc, who re-established the Ultraseek brand name and continued development of the product.
In December 2005, Verity was acquired by UK company Autonomy PLC. Under Autonomy, Ultraseek continues to be actively developed and marketed as Autonomy's entry-level keyword-based site search offering.
Domain name
Today, the "infoseek.com" domain name forwards to the "go.com" website. The brand name of Infoseek is now completely unused in North America; however it is still operating as Infoseek Japan.
References
- ↑ "Contacting Infoseek." Infoseek. July 2, 1997. Retrieved on January 20, 2010.
- ↑ Infoseek - a history (from WebSerch)
External links
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- Infoseek (Archive)
- Infoseek Japan
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