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November 29, 2004
Search Heating Up, Yet Again
Mamma.com went and bought Copernic over Thanksgiving. Why Copernic? Jupiter Research analyst Gary Stein opines that Mamma's doing this to stay in the game. I'd argue that they're just trying to get in the game. Whoever heard of Mamma.com, anyway? Not me, but apparently Mark Cuban is a large shareholder and their stock maxed out at around $150 a share back in 2000. Both companies are at the bottom of the mindshare barrel--maybe this move will do them good (if only they can pick a better name). I do agree with Gary that BlinkX is the bomb. (By way of the extremely worthy Search Engine Lowdown).
In other news, there's growing interest in building an open source desktop search engine powered by Lucene. What's Lucene, you say? According to search expert and entrepreneur Tim Bray, it's the only open search API that gets the architecture right. If only someone would provide a front-end for Search::ContextGraph...
Posted by Devon at November 29, 2004 05:08 PM
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