Teoma (from
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...
''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet
search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
founded in April 2000 by Professor
Apostolos Gerasoulis
Apostolos Gerasoulis is a Greek professor of computer science at Rutgers University, and the co-creator of Teoma
Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic ''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Geras ...
and his colleagues at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
in
New Jersey
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. Professor
Tao Yang
Tao Yang is a Chinese-American computer scientist. Yang is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is also a tenured professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biography
Yang ...
from the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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co-led technology R&D. Their research grew out of the 1998 DiscoWeb project. The original research was published in the paper, "DiscoWeb: Applying Link Analysis to Web Search".
History
The Teoma search engine was officially launched in April 2001.
acquired Teoma on September 18, 2001 for over $1.5 million.
On January 9, 2002, Ask Jeeves announced that it had integrated Teoma's search technology into Ask Jeeves.
Teoma 2.0 was released on January 21, 2003, which boasted improvements to search result relevancy, additions to search tools and more advanced search functions.
On February 26, 2006, the Teoma search engine was rebranded and redirected to search.ask.com.
In mid-April 2010, Teoma relaunched with similar search results to Ask.
As of December 2010, Ask.com referred to the Teoma algorithm as the ExpertRank algorithm.
Growth
In 2002,
Nielsen//NetRatings
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reported that Teoma had grown by 175%, making it the third most popular search engine in the
United States
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.
Teoma's year-over-year growth in terms of number of searches from 2002 to 2003 was 51%.
See also
*
List of search engines
Search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market websites have a search facility for online databases.
By content/topic
General ...
References
Internet search engines
Internet properties established in 2000
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