Direct Hit Technologies

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Direct Hit Technologies, Inc. was a Boston-based search engine company that provided search engine services to major web portals and operated a public search engine at directhit.com.[1] Founded in April of 1998, the Direct Hit search engine utilized the anonymous searching activity of millions of web searchers to rank web sites based on a number of patented algorithms,[2] such as how long searchers spent viewing each web page and where a site was ranked in the original search results list.[3] Direct Hit filed to go public through Robertson Stephens[4] and was acquired by Ask Jeeves in January, 2000.[5]

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  1. ^ PC World - Direct Hit Tools Help Surfers Search Smarter
  2. ^ http://www.google.com/patents?id=jLwXAAAAEBAJ
  3. ^ Washingtonpost.com: WashTech
  4. ^ http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092756/0000912057-99-010346.txt
  5. ^ Ask Jeeves to acquire Direct Hit for $506 million - CNET News.com