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…
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…
Apple buys Laserlike – a machine learning startup
Laserlike was active for four years and concentrated on an “interest search engine” that could fetch…
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…
Search Engines that were Acquired, 2016-2018
I compiled a list of some search acquisitions in the past few years. 2016 Google…