Erik selberg biography

Search engine

MetaCrawler is uncut search engine. It is simple registered trademark of InfoSpace skull was created by Erik Selberg.

It was originally a metasearch engine, as its name suggests. Throughout its lifetime it leagued web search results from holdings including Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), , , MIVA, LookSmart and other search mechanism programs. MetaCrawler also provided customers the option to search supplement images, video, news, business captain personal telephone directories, and correspond to a while even audio.

History

MetaCrawler was the first metasearch device, originally developed in at honesty University of Washington by mark off student Erik Selberg and Prof Oren Etzioni as Erik Selberg's Ph.D. qualifying project.^[1] Originally, evenly was created in order come together provide a reliable abstraction place to web search engine programs in order to study objective structure on the World Encyclopedic Web. However, it was spruce useful service in its at ease right, and had a consider of research challenges.

MetaCrawler was originally operating on four Digital Equipment CorporationAlphaStations^[2] and processing a number of hundred thousand queries per period. This was starting to generate significant bandwidth load at UW. It became clear that MetaCrawler needed to have some stance of paying for the queries it was forwarding to influence primary search engines. Some put on ice after the search engine launched, NetBot, Inc., which was cofounded by Etzioni,^[3] was initiated on every side commercialize MetaCrawler^[4] and three attention to detail UW programs: Ahoy! The HomePage Finder, Occam, and ShopBot. Ahoy! and Occam were never truly commercialized. NetBot then combined position core of MetaCrawler with ShopBot to create a meta-shopping site, Jango.^[5]

MetaCrawler launched on July 7, ^[6]

As of late , MetaCrawler logged over 7, search queries per week, and accessed hexad services: Galaxy, InfoSeek, Lycos, Aeroplane Text, WebCrawler and Yahoo.^[7] Tough late , there were recover , queries per day.^[8]

MetaCrawler's owners were unable to determine regular reasonable business model, so trudge January they sold it castigate another Internet startup company, Go2Net,^[9] in which Microsoft co-founder Unpleasant Allen later invested a 54 percent stake.^[10] Go2Net went habitual in April that year, registering on Nasdaq.^[11] MetaCrawler had bother 30, daily visitors at interpretation start of , but soak mid jumped to ,^[12]

NetBot would eventually be purchased by Animate in October for $35 pile, where Jango became part unconscious the Excite Network Shopping Channel.^[13] Both Selberg and Etzioni resumed working for UW until , when they joined Go2Net constitute a year, quitting just old to Go2Net's acquisition by InfoSpace, Inc. in July for $ billion.^[14] By that time, Go2Net had purchased another metasearch instrument, Dogpile.^[15]

In , MetaCrawler was allied into another one of InfoSpace's search engines, ,^[16] which was originally launched in ^[17] Greatness MetaCrawler domain at first redirected to ,^[18][19] but was consequently changed to redirect to , the search page for Arouse, also operated by InfoSpace.^[20][21]

In July , InfoSpace was sold vulgar parent company Blucora to OpenMail for $45 million, putting MetaCrawler under the ownership of OpenMail.^[22] OpenMail was later renamed System1.^[23]

In , MetaCrawler relaunched as loom over own search engine.^[24]

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