Zoo.com is a

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, which as of 2006, provided results from search engines and other sources, including

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and

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. Also as of 2006, Zoo.com provided news content from

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and

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History

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launched Zoo.com on November 14, 2006, as a

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metasearch engine after InfoSpace, through conducting their own survey, claimed that kids who are more reliant on the

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are more likely to encounter material inappropriate for them. Zoo.com competed with other kid-friendly search engines at the time such as Yahoo!'s

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, AOL's Study Buddy, Ask's Ask for Kids and KidsClick!. 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". In 2014,

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, another metasearch engine owned by InfoSpace, was merged into Zoo.com, but was later relaunched as its own search engine in 2017. In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its InfoSpace business to OpenMail for $45 million, putting Zoo.com under the ownership of OpenMail. OpenMail was later renamed System1.

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