Jubii

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Jubii HQ in Copenhagen Denmark

Jubii is a webportal based in Copenhagen. Jubii provides a search engine and other services, including e-mail.

The company was founded in 1995 by Kasper Larsen, Henrik Sorensen, Martin Thorborg and Andreas Jurgensen. Jubii grew to become the most used Danish Internet portal, with a market reach of 92% of all Danish Internet users, with an advertising market share of more than 65%

Among Jubiis Innovations was:

1. First Internet website with Satelite Images in 1998
2. First Internet search directory with Fuzzy based search in 1999
3. First Internet search engine with custom user made pages implementing information from a wide range of information sources (called Jubii 2000) with drag and drop placement of information

Jubii was sold in year 2000 to Lycos Europe. This became Lycos Europe's Danish quote 'search and community business'.
Lycos Inc was purchased by Daum Communications of South Korea who owns the Lycos trademark in the United States.
Lycos Europe now wants to expand into the USA but can not use the Lycos name so is using 'Jubii' from April 2007 for its web 2.0 service. Users of Lycos Europe web email service are being switched over to the jubii.com brand.