Sears Israel (formally S.H.C. Israel, previously named Delver) was

Sears Holdings Corporation Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. It was the 20th- ...

's Israeli branch, owning the site ShopYourWay. The company is located in Herzeliya,

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

History

Startup days

Delver started as a web search engine that displayed results prioritized based upon the searcher’s

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and community. It worked by indexing users’ social connections (the

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) and their online contributions, and ranking search results by the relation between the searcher and target documents. Such results may include blogs, photos, videos, web pages, articles, reviews and more. The concept behind Delver was first introduced in DEMO'08, and an initial public version was launched later that year on July 15. In November that year, Delver announced integration with

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's BOSS search framework. Delver Communications, the company behind Delver, was founded in 2007 by co-founders Liad Agmon, Avital Yachin and Sagie Davidovitch. Until March 2009, the company was privately held and backed by

Carmel Ventures Viola Ventures ( he, ויולה ונצ'רס), (formerly Carmel Ventures ( he, כרמל ונצ'רס)), established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $1.3 billion under management. History Viola Ventures is focused on early sta ...

Acquisition by Sears

In March 2009,

announced that it had purchased Delver. Delver changed its name to “Sears Holdings Corporation Israel” (S.H.C Israel) and started to work on 2 main projects: Delver.com website, and SPLAT.

Delver.com

The Delver website re-launched as a

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website, empowering the user to find products online using an open platform, with the help of the user’s own

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. The website provides the user several abilities: Comment, post reviews and questions on products, create personal catalogs, follow other catalogs, post polls, add purchasable products from other websites, buy products using a

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, and so on. Delver.com was introduced in Apple's

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"Delver for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad"
on iTunes App Store on March 25, 2010.

SPLAT

A social platform embedded in Sears’ website. This allows many abilities of Delver’s website to be used in Sears’ website, with additional abilities and modifications to suit Sears’ website.

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External links

Sears Israel's Website

Online retailers of Israel Social search Sears Holdings Retail companies established in 2009