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InfoSpace: History, Measurement & Companies

Infospace, Inc. was an American company that offered private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds. The company's flagship metasearch site was Dogpile and its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and MetaCrawler. After a 2012 rename to Blucora, the InfoSpace business unit was sold to data management company OpenMail.

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InfoSpace topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Measurement and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around InfoSpace.

Related topics
18
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
22
Extracted relationships
42
Concept neighborhoods
7
Bridge connections
22

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 · 10 topics
Overview · 5 topics
2003 shareholder lawsuit · 2 topics
Rename · 1 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
March 1996; 30 years ago (1996-03)
Headquarters
U.S.
Dissolved
2012 (renamed and InfoSpace business sold off in 2016)
Founder
Naveen Jain
Type of business
Public
URL
https://www.infospace.com/

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

Rename

2003 shareholder lawsuit

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 InfoSpace connects Entity context

The extracted context around InfoSpace shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, InfoSpace → After, American Northwest, By April, CEO, Company, Excite, Go2Net, Go2Net CEO Russell Horowitz, In July, InfoSpace's, INSP, It, Jain, Lycos, March, Microsoft, Naveen Jain, On December, Playboy, Rather Another extracted example is InfoSpace → Blucora, Discovery Communications, HowStuffWorks, In January, In July, On April, OpenMail, TaxAct. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

InfoSpace

Top relations

related to history · 23
InfoSpace → After, American Northwest, By April, CEO, Company, Excite, Go2Net, Go2Net CEO Russell Horowitz, In July, InfoSpace's, INSP, It, Jain, Lycos, March, Microsoft, Naveen Jain, On December, Playboy, Rather
related to Rename · 8
InfoSpace → Blucora, Discovery Communications, HowStuffWorks, In January, In July, On April, OpenMail, TaxAct
related to 2003 shareholder lawsuit · 5
InfoSpace → In, InfoSpace CEO, Jain, Jain's, Naveen Jain
Dissolved · 1
InfoSpace → 2012 (renamed and InfoSpace business sold off in 2016)
Founded · 1
InfoSpace → March 1996; 30 years ago (1996-03)
Founder · 1
InfoSpace → Naveen Jain
Headquarters · 1
InfoSpace → U.S.
Type of business · 1
InfoSpace → Public
URL · 1
InfoSpace → https://www.infospace.com/

Important terminology

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

Important terminology

company jain sold million ceo 2003 acquired blucora march 2012 business 2000 content mobile infospace's president online rename openmail founded

InfoSpace relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 42 structured relationships around InfoSpace. Examples in this analysis include InfoSpace → Dissolved → 2012 (renamed and InfoSpace business sold off in 2016) and InfoSpace → Founded → March 1996; 30 years ago (1996-03). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
InfoSpaceDissolved2012 (renamed and InfoSpace business sold off in 2016)1.00infobox
InfoSpaceFoundedMarch 1996; 30 years ago (1996-03)1.00infobox
InfoSpaceFounderNaveen Jain1.00infobox
InfoSpaceHeadquartersU.S.1.00infobox
InfoSpaceType of businessPublic1.00infobox
InfoSpaceURLhttps://www.infospace.com/1.00infobox
InfoSpacerelated to 2003 shareholder lawsuitIn0.60section
InfoSpacerelated to 2003 shareholder lawsuitInfoSpace CEO0.60section
InfoSpacerelated to 2003 shareholder lawsuitNaveen Jain0.60section
InfoSpacerelated to 2003 shareholder lawsuitJain0.60section
InfoSpacerelated to 2003 shareholder lawsuitJain's0.60section
InfoSpacerelated to historyThe0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around InfoSpace bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Million, Acquired and Sold. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • InfoSpace
    • Million
    • Acquired
    • Sold
    • Content
    • Online
    • Year
    • Blucora
    • Mobile
    • Ceo
    • Jain
    • Data
    • Directory
  • infospace
    • Million
    • Acquired
    • Sold
    • Content
    • Online
    • Year
    • Blucora
    • Mobile
    • Ceo
    • Jain
    • Data
    • Directory
  • naveen jain
    • Shareholder
    • Naveen
    • Ceo
    • Role
    • March
    • Million
    • Lawsuit
    • April
    • December
    • Infospace's
  • rename
    • Data
    • Lawsuit
    • Management
    • Openmail
    • Shareholder
    • Unit
    • Sold
    • Founded
    • March
  • 2003 shareholder lawsuit
    • Shareholder
    • Naveen
    • Rename
    • Founded
    • March
    • Ceo
    • Jain
    • Sold
    • Million
  • openmail
    • Rename
    • Unit
    • Sold
    • Million
  • search engine
    • Unit

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For InfoSpace, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects InfoSpace 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
InfoSpace — History · splits 12 ⟂ 11
InfoSpace — Overview · splits 17 ⟂ 6
InfoSpace — 2003 shareholder lawsuit · splits 20 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

InfoSpace

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples42
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

Source & methodology

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

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

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