I don’t know if this’ll be useful to anyone or not, but over the past several months I’ve compiled a list of the physical locations of some search (using the term loosely) companies. Why? Because deep in my soul there still lives a librarian and ontologist. I’ve limited it to companies that have English products.
It’s certainly not exhaustive, so if you know more, send them my way.
United States
Silicon Valley/Peninsula/South Bay
A9 – Palo Alto
Become – Mountain View
Collarity – Palo Alto
Google – HQ in Mountain View
Kosmix – Mountrain View
Krugle – Menlo Park
Oodle – San Mateo
Riya – San Mateo
Spock
Surfwax – Menlo Park
Yahoo – HQ in Sunnyvale
Zvents – San Mateo
San Francisco
Groxis
LookSmart
Powerset
Rojo
Technorati
Trulia
East Bay
Ask – HQ in Emeryville
Seeqpod – Emeryville
Washington State
Findory – Seattle, WA
Infospace – HQ in Bellevue
MSN – HQ in Redmond
Zillow – Seattle
Elsewhere in the US
Answers.com – New York, NY and Jersulem, Israel
AOL – Dulles, VA
BusyTonight – NYC
Gigablast – Albuqurque, NM
Icerocket – Dallas, TX
Indeed – Stamford, CT and Austin, TX
Lycos (Hotbot) – Waltham, MA
MetaGlossary – Aventura, FL
Relona – Nashua, NH
Searchles – Washington D.C.
Snap – Pasadena, CA
Vivisimo (Clusty) – Pittsburgh, PA
Outside the US
Exalead – France
Kartoo – France
Lexxe – Australia
Not sure where these are located
Accoona
Eurekester -SF, New Zealand?
Dogpile
Keotag
Ixquick
Metacrawler
Metafind
Rawsugar
Rollyo
Webcrawler
Wink
Hi Chris – you may want to add searchles to the list… (www.searchles.com) We hail from Washington, D.C. daring to be coastally different from your list!
Here are two sites to go spelunkering for search companies:
eConsultant’s list of “web 2.0” search companies
Emily Chang has a lot of search companies listed in her ehub
You’ll have to do the geography part yourself.
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oops, those hyperlinks didn’t work in the post above for some reason. here are urls for copy/paste:
list of “web 2.0” search companies:
http://www.econsultant.com/web2/search-engines-software-services.html
Emily Chang has a lot of search companies listed in her ehub:
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/category/C37
Thanks John. Going through that list would keep me busy for quite a while!
There might be a few extra on John Batelle’s homepage too. Don’t limit yourself to websearch. Federated searching in the corporate enterprise is interesting too…
Keotag is localized in New-Caledonia