Teoma (from
Scottish Gaelic
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''teòma'' "expert") was an Internet
search engine
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founded in April 2000 by Professor
Apostolos Gerasoulis and his colleagues at
Rutgers University
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in
New Jersey
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. Professor
Tao 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 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
References
Defunct internet search engines
Internet properties established in 2000
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