Type of site | Search Engine |
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Available in | English |
Owner | System1 |
URL | http://www.zoo.com/ |
Launched | November 14, 2006 |
Current status | Active |
Zoo.com is a metasearch engine, which as of 2006, provided results from search engines and other sources, including Google, Yahoo! and Wikipedia. [1] Also as of 2006, Zoo.com provided news content from ABC News, Fox News and Yahoo! News. [1]
InfoSpace launched Zoo.com on November 14, 2006, as a kid-friendly metasearch engine after InfoSpace, through conducting their own survey, claimed that kids who are more reliant on the internet are more likely to encounter material inappropriate for them. [2]
Zoo.com competed with other kid-friendly search engines at the time such as Yahoo!'s Yahooligans, AOL's Study Buddy, Ask's Ask for Kids and KidsClick!. [1] The metasearch engine used several methods to filter out adult content such as adult sites and adult phrases and did not show results for certain search queries, such as "sex". [1]
In 2014, MetaCrawler, another metasearch engine owned by InfoSpace, was merged into Zoo.com, [3] but was later relaunched as its own search engine in 2017. [4]
In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its InfoSpace business to OpenMail for $45 million, putting Zoo.com under the ownership of OpenMail. [5] OpenMail was later renamed System1. [6]
Type of site | Search Engine |
---|---|
Available in | English |
Owner | System1 |
URL | http://www.zoo.com/ |
Launched | November 14, 2006 |
Current status | Active |
Zoo.com is a metasearch engine, which as of 2006, provided results from search engines and other sources, including Google, Yahoo! and Wikipedia. [1] Also as of 2006, Zoo.com provided news content from ABC News, Fox News and Yahoo! News. [1]
InfoSpace launched Zoo.com on November 14, 2006, as a kid-friendly metasearch engine after InfoSpace, through conducting their own survey, claimed that kids who are more reliant on the internet are more likely to encounter material inappropriate for them. [2]
Zoo.com competed with other kid-friendly search engines at the time such as Yahoo!'s Yahooligans, AOL's Study Buddy, Ask's Ask for Kids and KidsClick!. [1] The metasearch engine used several methods to filter out adult content such as adult sites and adult phrases and did not show results for certain search queries, such as "sex". [1]
In 2014, MetaCrawler, another metasearch engine owned by InfoSpace, was merged into Zoo.com, [3] but was later relaunched as its own search engine in 2017. [4]
In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its InfoSpace business to OpenMail for $45 million, putting Zoo.com under the ownership of OpenMail. [5] OpenMail was later renamed System1. [6]