Info is a metasearch engine, which as of 2013, provided results from search engines

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, Ask,

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, and Open Directory. As of 2004, news search was powered by

Topix.net Topix was an American Internet media company. Topix LLC, the controlling company, had its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Topix began as a news aggregator" which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. In the last few years, Topix ...

, Info.com's web search engine information was powered by Shopping.com and Info.com had White Page and Yellow Page search. As of 2013, Info.com also had search plugins for Google Chrome,

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and

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History

Info.com launched on October 18, 2004 with $8 million in backing, primarily from angel investors. Info.com initially provided results from search engines and directories Google, Yahoo!, Ask,

Teoma Teoma (from Scottish Gaelic ''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet search engine founded in April 2000 by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Professor Tao Yang from the University of California, ...

AlltheWeb AlltheWeb (sometimes referred to as FAST or FAST Search) was an Internet search engine that made its debut in mid-1999 and was closed in 2011. It grew out of ''FTP Search'', Tor Egge's doctorate thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Te ...

Inktomi Inktomi Corporation was a company that provided software for Internet service providers (ISPs). It was incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Foster City, California, United States. Customers included Microsoft, HotBot, Amazon.com, eBay, ...

, Yandex, Open Directory, Kanoodle, LookSmart, and

About.com Dotdash Meredith (formerly About.com) is an American digital media company based in New York City. The company publishes online articles and videos about various subjects across categories including health, home, food, finance, tech, beauty, ...

. In August 2016, the website had an estimated 13.5 million unique monthly visitors and was the tenth most popular search engine, ahead of

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, but behind

InfoSpace Infospace, Inc. was an American company that offered private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds. The company's flagship metasearch site was Dogpile and its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and Met ...

and other more popular search engines such as Google.

References

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