Infospace, which has now sold off all of its mobile businesses and fully focused on online search, will cut about 35 jobs, or about 20 percent of its work force,…

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Israeli search startup Hooja has received $1.5 million in its first round of funding, reports Globes. The still-stealth site was funded by individual investors, including Peter Thiel, one of the…

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The only surprise here is that it took so long to be official: Search/e-commerce firm Accoona has withdrawn its IPO plans, first announced in August. Care to take a stab…

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Travel search engines Kayak and SideStep are merging in a reported $200 million deal, creating what they believe will be the fifth largest travel search site. Both are “meta” sites,…

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SF-based video platform Kyte says it raised $15 million in a second round, officially putting a number on previously reported investments from Telefonica, (NYSE: TEF) Nokia, (NYSE: NOK) DoCoMo, (NYSE:…

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Palo Alto-based Kango, an aggregator of online travel info, has raised a $4 million first round from Shasta Ventures. The service uses semantic search technology to bring together travel reviews…

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Semantic search engine Hakia has raised $2 million of a planned $5 million round, according to VentureWire (via VentureBeat). The funding, from an unidentified investor, follows $16 million in funding…

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Israeli search marketer Kenshoo has received an undisclosed amount of first round funding from Sequoia Capital. In August, the company began applying its search engine marketing analytics on behalf of…

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Kosmix, a vertical search company that has primarily focused on health, has raised a $10 million third round led by DAG Ventures, with participation from previous backers LightSpeed and Accel.…

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Another effort from IAC (NSDQ: IACI) search company Ask.com to stand out from the crowd ... the launch Tuesday of “AskEraser," a new privacy control that will allow users to…

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New York-based iMedix, a search engine for health information, has raised $2 million from unidentified angel investors. The site, which is launching today after a year in development, offers a…

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Whether or not Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) purchase of DoubleClick gets anti-trust approval, the company is focused on entering additional partnerships to advance its aim of providing the connective tissue between…

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Publishers unveiled a proposal today to establish more flexible rules governing how search engines index their content. Currently, the AP notes, publishers can use a “robots.txt” file to tell a…

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NYC-based Snooth, a site for discovering and buying wine and wine information, has raised a second $1 million round from its angel investors and new international backers. Earlier this year,…

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Ingenio, the pay-per-call technology service that was powering the call/search ads for AOL, (NYSE: TWX) Marchex, Miva and others, has been bought out by AT&T. Financial details were not disclosed,…

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Updated to reflect a change in the information provided by the company: Indianapolis-based ChaCha, a search startup that offers users the ability to search with the help of a human…

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) has acquired Israeli start-up Yedda, a social search questions-and-answers service launched in 2006 with proprietary semantic matching technology. No financial terms disclosed. Founded by Avichay Nissenbaum and…

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The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) continues to feel the negative impact of its 2006 Knight Ridder acquisition, announcing today that is writing down $1.37 billion—one-third attributed to the way stock…

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In the uphill effort to dent Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) dominance over online search, some challengers, like Ask.com, have tried to raise awareness by spending heavily on ads. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)…

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Why spin four companies off of IAC? The glib—and true—answer from Barry Diller: “It can not be said in a single sentence, ‘what is IAC?” If that were enough to…

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IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Chairman Barry Diller led off his press conference on the company’s five-way split with another bit of news: IAC has a new five-year deal with Google (NSDQ:…

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InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) reported its Q3 numbers today, and they’re all jumbled up, mainly because the company is in the middle of selling off its mobile businesses, and will now…

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Peacock Equity, a joint venture between GE Commercial Finance’s Media, Communications & Entertainment business and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), has invested in mobile search and messaging provider 4INFO. The amount…

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Baidu’s revenues for Q307 increased by 107.5 percent year-on-year to RMB496.5 million (US$66.3 million). Net income for the company was RMB181.7 million (US$24.2 million), an increase of 113.2 percent year-on-year,…

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The deal has gone through after rumors for the last two months—InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) has sold its mobile services business to Motricity for $135 million in cash, meaning that the…

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