LookSmart, the Glossary
LookSmart is an American search advertising, content management, online media, and technology company.[1]
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97 relations: Ad Age, Advertising, AltaVista, Amazon (company), American City Business Journals, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Arizona, Ask.com, Australia, Bloomberg L.P., Board of directors, BT Group, Canada, Chatbot, Chief executive officer, Chief financial officer, Chief operating officer, Chief technology officer, CNET, Comparison shopping website, Content management, Contextual advertising, Cox Media Group, Crikey, Data center, Denmark, Digital media, Diigo, Dot-com bubble, Double entendre, Downtown Phoenix, E-commerce, Email, Evan Thornley, Fandom (website), Final good, FindArticles, Forbes, Gale (publisher), Google, Grub (search engine), Guthy-Renker, Hambrecht & Quist, Henderson, Nevada, Immigration, Information technology, Initial public offering, Interactive Advertising Bureau, International Olympic Committee, Java (programming language), ... Expand index (47 more) »
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Ad Age
Ad Age (known as Advertising Age until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media.
Advertising
Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.
AltaVista
AltaVista was a web search engine established in 1995.
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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American City Business Journals
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Amerindo Investment Advisors
Amerindo Investment Advisors Inc. was an Investment services firm, best known for making large profits during the Dot-com boom of the 1990s and 2000s. LookSmart and Amerindo Investment Advisors are companies based in San Francisco.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
Ask.com
Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. LookSmart and Ask.com are 1999 initial public offerings and dot-com bubble.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
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BT Group
BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Chatbot
A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface that is designed to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Chief financial officer
A chief financial officer (CFO), also known as a treasurer, is an officer of a company or organization who is assigned the primary responsibility for making decisions for the company for projects and its finances (financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting, and often the analysis of data).
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Chief operating officer
A chief operating officer (COO) (or chief operations officer) is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics).
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Chief technology officer
A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.
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CNET
CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. LookSmart and CNET are companies based in San Francisco.
A comparison shopping website, sometimes called a price comparison website, price analysis tool, comparison shopping agent, shopbot, aggregator or comparison shopping engine, is a vertical search engine that shoppers use to filter and compare products based on price, features, reviews and other criteria.
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Content management
Content management (CM) are a set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.
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Contextual advertising
Contextual advertising (also called contextual targeting) is a form of targeted advertising for advertisements appearing on websites or other digital platforms, such as content displayed in mobile browsers.
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CMG Media Corporation (doing business as Cox Media Group) is an American media conglomerate principally owned by Apollo Global Management in conjunction with Cox Enterprises, which maintains a 29% minority stake in the company.
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Crikey
Crikey is an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999.
Data center
A data center (American English) or data centre (Commonwealth English)See spelling differences.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats.
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Diigo
Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages.
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
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Double entendre
A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly.
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Downtown Phoenix
Downtown Phoenix is the central business district (CBD) of the City of Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
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E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet.
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Evan Thornley
Evan William Thornley (born 1964), is an Australian social entrepreneur, philanthropist and impact investor.
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Fandom (website)
Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. LookSmart and Fandom (website) are companies based in San Francisco.
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Final good
A final good or consumer good is a final product ready for sale that is used by the consumer to satisfy current wants or needs, unlike an intermediate good, which is used to produce other goods.
FindArticles
FindArticles was a website which provided access to articles previously published in over 3,000 magazines, newspapers, journals, business reports and other sources.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Grub (search engine)
Grub was an open source distributed search crawler platform.
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Guthy-Renker
Guthy-Renker is a California-based direct-response marketing company that sells health and beauty products directly to consumers through infomercials, television ads, direct mail, telemarketing, e-mail marketing, and the Internet.
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Hambrecht & Quist
Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q) was an investment bank based in San Francisco, California noted for its focus on the technology and Internet sectors. LookSmart and Hambrecht & Quist are companies based in San Francisco.
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Henderson, Nevada
Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.
Information technology
Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.
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Initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors.
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Interactive Advertising Bureau
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an American advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry.
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International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Java (programming language)
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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Joint venture
A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance.
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Juno Online Services
Juno Online Services, also called simply Juno, is an Internet service provider based in the United States.
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Machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.
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Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group Limited, known more commonly as Macquarie Bank, is a global investment banking and financial services group providing banking, financial advisory and investment, and funds management services, to institutional, corporate, and retail clients and counterparties, around the world, headquartered in Sydney and listed in Australia.
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Market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
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MarketWatch
MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. LookSmart and MarketWatch are 1999 initial public offerings and dot-com bubble.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing, commonly referred to as Bing, is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.
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Minority group
The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.
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Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is an American stock exchange based in New York City.
Net Nanny
Net Nanny is a content-control software suite marketed primarily towards parents as a way to monitor and control their child's computer and phone activity.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.
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Pay-per-click
Pay-per-click (PPC) is an internet advertising model used to drive traffic to websites, in which an advertiser pays a publisher (typically a search engine, website owner, or a network of websites) when the ad is clicked.
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Pornography
Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal.
PR Newswire
PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases headquartered in Chicago.
Public company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.
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Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Search advertising
In Internet marketing, search advertising is a method of placing online advertisements on web pages that show results from search engine queries.
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Search engine
A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query.
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
Technology company
A technology company (or tech company) is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of — most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics-based — technology-intensive products and services, which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy and internet-related services such as cloud storage and e-commerce services.
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Telstra
Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services.
Terra (company)
Terra was a Spanish Internet multinational company owned by Telefónica.
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
The Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary is an American online dictionary and encyclopedia that aggregates information from various sources.
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The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) was an American cable television company.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Veteran
A veteran is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in an occupation or field.
Web portal
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.
Website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.
White-label product
A white-label product is a product or service produced by one company (the producer) that other companies (the marketers) rebrand to make it appear as if they had made it.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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WiseNut
WiseNut was a crawler-based search engine that officially launched on September 5, 2001.
Yahoo!
Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.
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Yellow pages
The yellow pages are telephone directories of businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, in which advertising is sold.
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ZDNET
ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.
Zeal (web)
Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory launched by Brian Goler and Kevin Berk in 1999, and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000 for $20 million. LookSmart and Zeal (web) are 2000 mergers and acquisitions and web directories.
See also
Web directories
- 1337x
- 2345.com
- AboutUs.com
- Anime Web Turnpike
- Biographicon
- Business.com
- DMOZ
- Google Directory
- Insecam
- Internet Public Library
- Intute
- Iraqi Virtual Science Library
- Jasmine Directory
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- List of web directories
- Locallife
- LookSmart
- Pinoy Auto Trader
- ProgrammableWeb
- Saynoto0870.com
- Shopping directory
- Sources (website)
- Starting Point Directory
- TV Links
- Timway
- Virtual Library museums pages
- Web directory
- World Wide Web Virtual Library
- Yahoo! Directory
- Yahoo! Kids
- Zeal (web)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LookSmart
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