Search portals or large, aggregating sites?

[delanvital]

Hi all,

If you take yahoo, bing and google out of the equation, what large search companies are left? And I know the answer is not "none", there are some, struggling to survive as other types of sites, where google provides search, such as auction/dating/gaming/etc portals and what not.

Example: Did the UK have any national search engine companies, before search went truly global?

...and anyone recall one of these companies being traded?

[Jabbs]

Hi Del

There were a few!  

Ask was one (still survives actually) although technically it's a global search engine.
Webcrawler has been around for a VERY long time - probably as much as 15 years?
Infoseek - no longer exists to my knowledge but the web archive has Infoseek archived is an interesting site as it keeps 'old' versions of sites which you can browse
Lycos - popularly coined the phrase 'Go get it' (there logo featured/features a dog)
Altavista is still going and has been around for 15 years or so too

I'm not sure off the top of my head whether any of these have been taken over by another larger company though - some research might be required ;-)

[delanvital]

Hi Del

There were a few!  

Ask was one (still survives actually) although technically it's a global search engine.
Webcrawler has been around for a VERY long time - probably as much as 15 years?
Infoseek - no longer exists to my knowledge but the web archive has Infoseek archived is an interesting site as it keeps 'old' versions of sites which you can browse
Lycos - popularly coined the phrase 'Go get it' (there logo featured/features a dog)
Altavista is still going and has been around for 15 years or so too

I'm not sure off the top of my head whether any of these have been taken over by another larger company though - some research might be required ;-)

Hi mate,

That is perfect. The financials and trade info I should be able to dig  up, I just needed a starting point.

Cheers as always mate