ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo is a vertical search engine focused on people, companies, and the relationships between them. In addition to using the public web as its source to automatically create professionally-focused summaries of the people [ [http://websearch.about.com/od/peoplesearch/a/zoominfo.htm About.com: Web Search] ] and companies it finds, ZoomInfo has partnerships with Reunion.com [http://mashable.com/2007/08/20/reunion-zoominfo/ Reunion Partners with ZoomInfo for People Search] - Mashable August 20, 2007] and XING [http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/14/xing-zoominfo-partner Xing, ZoomInfo Partner] - WebPro June 14, 2007] to provide additional data.

Overview

Zoom Information Inc. was founded by Jonathan Stern in 2000 as Eliyon Technologies. The company’s investors include Venrock Associates and Vulcan Capital. [http://www.zoominfo.com/About/investors.aspx ZoomInfo investors] ]

The site powers people searches for Amazon’s A9.com and Business Week. ZoomInfo also allows users to collaborate in the construction of its content by contributing information to their own summaries or building new ones where none exists. A count in April 2006 indicated upwards of 30 million summaries of business professionals and 2.5 million company profiles. [http://www.zoominfo.com/About/technology_overview.aspx ZoomInfo technology overview] ]

The company draws around 4.5 million monthly users and generates circa $12 million in revenue from its fee-based and subscription services. [http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0237924020070402 ZoomInfo expands into Web search for businesses] - Reuters April 2, 2007]

Technology

Using natural language processing, ZoomInfo's crawlers read English sentences. It then extracts relevant pieces of information about people, such as the companies they work for and their job titles.

Once ZoomInfo extracts requested data, information integration logic then sifts through and organizes the data. Biographies of people found on various Web pages are assembled into summaries.

Competition

Zoominfo's competitors are sites such as [Jigsaw] http://www.jigsaw.com, [http://www.implu.com implu] , [http://www.insideview.com InsideView] , Hoovers and InfoUSA.

References

ee also

* Automatic summarization

External links

* [http://www.zoominfo.com ZoomInfo website]


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