Abcsearch

Infobox Company
company_name = ABCSearch
type = Private
foundation = 2001
location = Sherman Oaks, California, USA
employees = 40
key_people = Daniel Yomtobian-President & CEO
homepage= [http://www.abcsearch.com/ www.abcsearch.com]

ABCSearch is an American based private company that provides pay-per-click search to advertisers. They supply over six billion searches per month and enable advertisers to choose relevant search keywords and the precise amount they will pay when consumers click on those words that link to advertisers' websites and promotions. Site listings on ABCSearch are ranked and determined according to the advertisers paying the most to least for their links.ABCSearch was launched in 2001 and is a subsidiary of the Encino, California-based Internext Media Corp.

Company history

The ABCSearch founders have been in the online ad industry since 1995. ABCSearch is a subsidiary of Internext Media Corp. based in Encino, California. ABCSearch launched in early 2001 and has become a source of traffic for advertisers worldwide. In November 2007 ABCSearch signed a search distribution deal with Yahoo to expand access in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

In March 2008 ABCSearch acquired social search engine Aftervote.com [ [http://www.dmnews.com/ABCSearch-acquires-Aftervotecom/article/108091 ABCSearch acquires Aftervote.com - DMNews ] ] . In July 2008 ABCSearch relaunched Aftervote as Scour.com [ [http://mashable.com/2008/07/12/scour Search Google, MSN, and Yahoo and Make Money With Scour - Mashable ] ] , offering cash incentives for users to comment on results.

Products

* [http://www.abcsearch.com/advertisers.php?sec=adentify/ Adentify] -a contextual-based advertising product. It allows advertisers to be located on the same page as their customers.

* [http://www.abcsearch.com/advertisers.php?sec=clickshield/ Clickshield] was developed to help advertisers address and combat click fraud.

References

External links

* http://www.abcsearch.com