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Bomis: History & Companies

Bomis, Inc. (/ˈbɒmɪs/, from Bitter Old Men in Suits; rhyming with "promise") was an American dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia. It was co-founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell, and Michael Davis. By 2007, the company was inactive, with its Wikipedia-related…

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Bomis topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Bomis.

Related topics
107
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
111
Extracted relationships
170
Concept neighborhoods
25
Bridge connections
111

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 66 topics
Overview · 22 topics
Aftermath · 13 topics
Description of site · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
1996
Founders
Jimmy Wales · Tim Shell · Michael Davis
Industry
Dot-com
Headquarters
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
Advertising
Yes
Available in
English

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Aftermath

Description of site

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Bomis connects Entity context

The extracted context around Bomis shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Bomis → Advertising, Announcing Wikimedia Foundation, Archived, Bomis FAQ, Bomis What's New, California, Com Browser Kills Pop-Up, Displace Britannica, Encarta, February, Freedom's Nest, Internet Archive, January, Jimmy, July, June, March, Nekkid, November, October Another extracted example is Bomis → About, Additional, Advertising, Beauty, Bomis Browser, Buffy, Casablanca, Episode, Farrah Fawcett, Geri Halliwell, Hunter, In, Its, Misogyny, Open Directory Project, Sheila Jeffreys, Snake Eyes, Spice Girls, Star Wars, The Buffy. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Bomis

Top relations

related to Further reading · 30
Bomis → Advertising, Announcing Wikimedia Foundation, Archived, Bomis FAQ, Bomis What's New, California, Com Browser Kills Pop-Up, Displace Britannica, Encarta, February, Freedom's Nest, Internet Archive, January, Jimmy, July, June, March, Nekkid, November, October
related to Hosted content · 27
Bomis → About, Additional, Advertising, Beauty, Bomis Browser, Buffy, Casablanca, Episode, Farrah Fawcett, Geri Halliwell, Hunter, In, Its, Misogyny, Open Directory Project, Sheila Jeffreys, Snake Eyes, Spice Girls, Star Wars, The Buffy
related to Description of site · 20
Bomis → Business, Crowd, Crowdsourcing, Driving, Future, How, In, Internet, Jeff Howe, Jonathan Zittrain, Magazine, Philanthropy, Power, Stop It, The Chronicle, The Edge, The Future, The Guardian, Wales's, Web
related to Foundation · 19
Bomis → Andrew McCague, Ask Jeeves, Chicago, Florida, In, In June, Its, Jason Richey, Michael Davis, NBC, NBCi, Petersburg, San Diego, St, Terry Foote, The, Tim Shell, Toan Vo, Wales
related to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees · 18
Bomis → All Bomis-owned, By, English-language, Florida, In June, It, Petersburg, Sanger, St, The, Wales, When, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Wikipedia's, Wikipedia-associated, Wikipedia-related, With Wikipedia
related to Nupedia and Wikipedia · 17
Bomis → At, CEO, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, March, May, Michael Davis, Nupedia, Nupedia's, Ohio State University, PhD, San Diego, Sanger, Tim Shell, To, Wales, Wikipedia
related to Aftermath · 14
Bomis → Bomis Babes, He, In, It, Jimmy, Larry Sanger, Rogers Cadenhead, Time, Top, UK, US, Wales, Wikipedia, Wikipedia Moments
Products · 5
Bomis → Bomis Babe Report, Bomis Babes, Bomis Browser, Bomis Premium, The Babe Engine
Founders · 3
Bomis → Jimmy Wales, Michael Davis, Tim Shell
Subsidiaries · 2
Bomis → Nupedia (2000–2003), Wikipedia (2001–2003)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

wikipedia wales nupedia content company foundation shell site advertising sanger wikimedia erotic bomis' board 2000 internet archived davis 2003 ceo

Bomis relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 170 structured relationships around Bomis. Examples in this analysis include Bomis → Advertising → Yes and Bomis → Available in → English. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BomisAdvertisingYes1.00infobox
BomisAvailable inEnglish1.00infobox
BomisCEOTim Shell1.00infobox
BomisDissolved20071.00infobox
BomisEmployees101.00infobox
BomisFounded19961.00infobox
BomisFoundersJimmy Wales1.00infobox
BomisFoundersTim Shell1.00infobox
BomisFoundersMichael Davis1.00infobox
BomisHeadquartersSt. Petersburg, Florida, United States1.00infobox
BomisIndustryDot-com1.00infobox
BomisLaunched19961.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Premium1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Babes1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Babe Report1.00infobox
BomisProductsThe Babe Engine1.00infobox
BomisProductsBomis Browser1.00infobox
BomisRegistrationNo1.00infobox
BomisSubsidiariesNupedia (2000–2003)1.00infobox
BomisSubsidiariesWikipedia (2001–2003)1.00infobox
BomisType of businessPrivate1.00infobox
BomisType of siteInternet portal1.00infobox
BomisType of siteAdvertising space1.00infobox
BomisURLbomis.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-05-10)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Bomis bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Wikipedia, Wales and Nupedia. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Bomis
    • Wikipedia
    • Wales
    • Nupedia
    • Erotic
    • Advertising
    • Sanger
    • Content
    • Babe
    • Pornography
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Web
  • bomis
    • Wikipedia
    • Wales
    • Nupedia
    • Erotic
    • Advertising
    • Sanger
    • Content
    • Babe
    • Pornography
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Web
  • wikipedia
    • Nupedia
    • Wales
    • Bomis
    • Sanger
    • Board
    • Bomis'
    • Foundation
    • Began
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Wikimedia
    • Shell
  • wikipedia day
    • Nupedia
    • Wales
    • Bomis
    • Sanger
    • Board
    • Bomis'
    • Foundation
    • Began
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Wikimedia
    • Shell
  • truth in numbers? everything, according to wikipedia
    • Nupedia
    • Wales
    • Bomis
    • Sanger
    • Board
    • Bomis'
    • Foundation
    • Began
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Wikimedia
    • Shell
  • dot-com company
    • Chicago
    • Ceo
    • Com
    • Nupedia
    • Wikimedia
    • Advertising
    • Content
    • Foundation
    • Sanger
    • Wales
    • Encyclopedia
    • Trustees
  • nupedia
    • Wikipedia
    • Com
    • Content
    • Sanger
    • Began
    • Ceo
    • Site
    • Wales
    • Encyclopedia
    • Michael
    • Tim
    • Davis
  • jimmy wales
    • Michael
    • Tim
    • Davis
    • Wikipedia
    • Shell
    • Wales
    • Sanger
    • Wikimedia
    • Foundation
    • Ceo
    • Internet
    • Trustees

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Bomis, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Bomis with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Bomis — History · splits 45 ⟂ 67
Bomis — Overview · splits 89 ⟂ 23
Bomis — Aftermath · splits 98 ⟂ 14
Bomis — Description of site · splits 105 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Bomis

Nodes112
Edges111
Triples170
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.017857
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Bomis to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Bomis · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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