About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Chapters: Become.com, Redlasso, Tolmol, Findingdulcinea, Tiptop Technologies, Talent Zoo, Imshopping, Streetprices, Indeed.com, Wikiseek, Metacrawler, Tineye, Rambler, Chemrefer, Simply Hired, Pubsub, Teoma, Mnogosearch, Blogscope, Ecocho, Kidrex, Novoseek, Krugle, Webcrawler, Pricegrabber, Mozdex, Amazon Light, Topic-Sensitive Pagerank, Astalavista.box.sk, Hakia, Baidu Patents, Sphere, Amatomu, Sogou.com, Carrot2, Bixee.com, Magportal, Miner.hu, Lexxe, Sphider, Hotbot, Metalib, Search Engine Test, Bibliopage.com, Swag Bucks, Pakrise, Icerocket, Hubmed, Aspseek, Najdi.si, Ewatch, Codase, Mysimon, Google Searchwiki, World-Wide Web Worm, O'reilly Labs Code Search, Blogpulse, Discovered. Excerpt: Become.com is a product price comparison service and discovery shopping search engine with a mission to help shoppers make ideal buying decisions. Become.com targets popular products such as electronics, home, garden, computers, cameras, clothing, health, beauty and more. Become, Inc., was founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who also founded mySimon. By Early February, 2005, the original founders added Jon Glick, past Senior Manager of Search at Yahoo and the guy who aided AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and the Inktomi database into Yahoo to their team. Two other executives, Greg Haslam of NexTag, and Tony Pecora of eBay, were also brought on board at Become.com. In 2005 Haslam hired a team that included Colin Murphy (who moved on to SingleFeed in 2007), Daryl Griffin (who moved on to Microsoft) and Seph Zdarko (who moved on to Google, Aggregate Knowledge, BuzzLogic). Become.com is a privately-held company in Mountain View, California who received an undisclosed amount of funding during their series A round and an additional $7.2 million in the second round of funding, led by Transcosmos venture capita...
