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Multilingual Search (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Accoona, a b2b search engine, was recently acquired by the Masterseek, a B2B search engine “Masterseek is a virtual showroom to search out business information about others and to guide and update the information available on your own company.” Accoona launched in 2004 with great fanfare including having former US President Bill Clinton speak [...]
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Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
The American search engine Accoona has just been taken over by the international B2B search engine Masterseek, which was founded in Denmark in 1999. Accoona received great attention upon its launch in 2004, when the former US President Bill Clinton was the speaker at its opening. Accoona has since achieved particular success in China, where Accoona [...]
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Internet News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
B2B Search Engine Accoona Acquired by Masterseek, Bill Hartzer (Nov 5) Accoona is to be relaunched by Masterseek. Accoona was a business search engine - picked up information on companies and people and had some ability to identify entities in...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The remnants of Accoona, the deeply-troubled search startup whose Web site shut down last month -- and whose IPO was pulled last year -- has been acquired by Danish B2B search engine Masterseek. Visitors to accoona.com are now redirected to Masterseek's search engine, with the listings to be merged within weeks. In its release , Masterseek says Accoona has achieved "particular success" in China, where...
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Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
U.S. business-to-business search engine Accoona has been acquired by Denmark-based business-to-business search engine Masterseek. Accoona launched in 2004 and has seen much of its success in China. "We have worked intensely for the last two weeks in order to get all of the legalities and finances in place for the takeover and there is still a great deal of work in front of us to integrate and re-launch...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Search/e-commerce firm Accoona , which withdrew its IPO late last year, has now been bought by B2B search engine Masterseek , which was founded in Denmark in 1999. Although the site once generated buzz as a search startup, most of its revenue came from e-commerce, a business running deeply in the red. The company does say it is has achieved some success in China, where Accoona has supplied the search...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Marydee : I'm pleased that Accoona at least told us when it became defunct. There are some other search engines that haven’t been so forthcoming. They're the "living dead" of search engines...
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Internet News (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Post #2000! Rest in Peace, Accoona, Alt Search Engines (Oct 3) AltSearchEngines reported that Accoona has closed up shop. This was a business oriented search engine that had quite a boost several years ago with endorsement of sorts from President...
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Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
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
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Don't say we didn't tell you so. Accoona , the search engine no one had ever heard of, is gone. The company's history reads like is a comedy of errors. When we first heard about the money-losing Jersey City-based startup filing for IPO last year, our impulse was to run away screaming . Things only got worse: Accoona's IPO was an auction (red flag), run by something called "the Maxim Group" (another...
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Marketing Profs Daily Fix (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Twing.com , a property of Accoona Corp., is a free service that aims to help users search for opinions, information, and conversations that match their particular interest—however obscure that particular interest may be. The site encourages users to get in on the conversation by enabling them to find communities relevant to their interests. While blogs and social media have become increasingly common...
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Internet News (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Accoona, Once Pretender to Search Throne... Now Niche B2B Service by Richard MacManus, Read Write Web (Jun 19) Accoona, which has been trying to be search engine for business users, is cutting back to business directory search and news search....
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
According to the Zuula blog , former search king pretender Accoona has finally given up on becoming a major search player. When Accoona was officially launched in December 2004 , at a ceremony featuring Bill Clinton, Accoona claimed to have search technology that would be "more efficient than the likes of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN." Accoona was built using "artificial intelligence technology...
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Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Unfortunately, it looks like Accoona – one of the first alternative search engines — is shutting down its web search service. The folks over at Zuula have written up the the news in detail in a posting at the Zuula blog, and we’ve republished the article here: Although it never reached the search engine “major leagues”, Accoona [...]
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
We got a blast from the past today when someone using SAI's anonymous tip box told us that "a project manager from Accoona called a recruiting firm this afternoon and said that they were shutting down and going out of business." Who's Accoona? It took a second for us to remember, as well. They're the would-be search company that was really a money-losing e-commerce company that made a disastrous attempt...
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Accoona is acquired by Masterseek
Accoona Domains and Search Facilities is acquired by Masterseek B2B Search Engine on October 30th, 2008
Rasmus Refer - (not a member) - 11/01/2008