- Accoona
Accoona is a
New Jersey based-internet company. Their main product is asearch engine that claims to useartificial intelligence to better understand searches. OnJune 23 ,2005 , in the ABC Times Square studios, the AI Accoona Toolbar, driven by aFritz 9 prototype, drew against the 33rd World Chess ChampionRustam Kasimdzhanov . In addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches, and its signature "SuperTarget" feature. Their exclusive partnership withChina Daily , a large Chineseinternet portal , was seen as a highly strategic move.The CEO of Accoona is Valentine J. Zammit, formerly of 24/7 Real Media and Doubleclick.
After IPO problems, Accoona shuttered their doors on October 5th, 2008 [http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/dead-search-engine-accoona-officially-dead] .
In October 2008 the web page said:"Dear Accoona search users, Due to an overwhelmingly competitive search market, Accoona.com and Accoona.cn will no longer be active. We thank you for your previous support.Sincerely, Accoona Management."
Partnerships
Accoona provides the search technology to the Chinese portals
Sina.com andSohu . They also formed a 20-year exclusive partnership withChina Daily . Through this partnership, with China Daily and its widespread Chinese affiliates, Accoona expects 10 million hits daily from the otherwise isolated Chinese user base.Accoona signed a million dollar deal with FAST Search from Norway to help enhance their rankings.
Press
* Accoona received a lot of attention after selecting former President
Bill Clinton as a spokesperson onDecember 8 ,2004 .
* Accoona also received significant coverage from thewebmaster community after many forum sites were spammed with promotional Accoona entries.
* Accoona was selected among the 50 Coolest Websites of year 2006 by Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1222614,00.htmlExternal links
* [http://www.accoona.com/ Accoona SuperTarget] - Official site and search engine portal.
* [http://www.accoona.eu/ Accoona Europe]
* [http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,927185,00.html "Bill Clinton Goes Searching"] fromBusiness 2.0 -December 8 ,2004 .
* [http://awis.blogspot.com/2005/03/accoona-moving-up-by-getting-low.html Accoona: Moving Up by Getting Low] fromAlexa Internet -March 30 ,2005 .
* [http://www.accoonachess.com/playai.php Play chess against the AI Accoona Toolbar online]
* Accoona Business model is based on Pay per Lead , their platform is called http://www.exchangeplace.com
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