Search Engines that were Acquired, 2019. A work in progress.
Following up on Why do search engines and search products get acquired? and Search Engines that were Acquired, 2016-2018, here...
Acquisitions
Why do search engines and search products get acquired?
I was recently asked if the valuation of a search engine acquisition is connected to its number of users. I'm...
Apple buys Laserlike – a machine learning startup
Laserlike was active for four years and concentrated on an "interest search engine" that could fetch news, video, and general Web...
Appen buys Figure Eight (FKA Crowdflower) for $300M
Appen just announced that it’s acquiring Figure Eight in an all-cash deal that sees Appen paying $175 million upfront, with an additional payment...
Search Engines that were Acquired, 2016-2018
I compiled a list of some search acquisitions in the past few years. 2016 Google buys Undecidable Lab --creates tools that...