doppelganger
07-09-2004, 10:37 AM
"Acoona" is coming... It's a huge business search engine. Apparently, it is being headed up by a former cheif of Compaq, and now has a partnership with China Daily, the largest enlish-language Chinese website.
From the CNET article:
"The closely held company plans to introduce a publicly available search system in December that trawls through a database of 20 million U.S. companies and more than 10 million companies across Asia, Europe and the rest of the world."
Here's the Acoona website:
http://www.acoona.com/
and
Click here for the CNET article (http://news.com.com/Business+Web+search+wins+Chinese+backing/2100-1032_3-5261214.html?tag=cd.top)
What I find really interesting is that they are getting records from existing business databases, etc... Why haven't we seen Google partner with say, Hoovers, and provide a business-specific search product?
From the CNET article:
"The closely held company plans to introduce a publicly available search system in December that trawls through a database of 20 million U.S. companies and more than 10 million companies across Asia, Europe and the rest of the world."
Here's the Acoona website:
http://www.acoona.com/
and
Click here for the CNET article (http://news.com.com/Business+Web+search+wins+Chinese+backing/2100-1032_3-5261214.html?tag=cd.top)
What I find really interesting is that they are getting records from existing business databases, etc... Why haven't we seen Google partner with say, Hoovers, and provide a business-specific search product?