key people valentine j. zammit rasmus refer website www.accoonacorp.com accoona was an internet company having offices in jersey city new jersey and shanghai china . their main product was a search engine that claimed to use artificial intelligence to better understand searches . on june 23 2005 in the abc times square studios the ai accoona toolbar driven by a fritz 9 prototype drew against the 33rd world chess champion rustam kasimdzhanov . in addition to traditional searches it allows business profile searches and its signature supertarget feature . their exclusive partnership with china daily a large chinese internet portal was seen as a highly strategic move . the ceo of accoona is valentine j. zammit formerly of 24 7 real media and doubleclick . after ipo problems accoona shuttered their doors on october 5 2008 . 1 in october 2008 the web page said dear accoona search users due to an overwhelmingly competitive search market accoona.com and accoona.cn will no longer be active . we thank you for your previous support . sincerely accoona management . accoona domains and search facilities is acquired by masterseek b2b search engine on october 30 2008 contents 1 partnerships 2 press 3 see also 4 references 5 external links partnerships edit accoona provides the search technology to the chinese portals sina.com and sohu . they also formed a 20 year exclusive partnership with china daily . through this partnership with china daily and its widespread chinese affiliates accoona expects 10 million hits daily from the otherwise isolated chinese user base . accoona signed a million dollar deal with fast search from norway to help enhance their rankings . press edit accoona received a lot of attention after selecting former president bill clinton as a spokesperson on december 8 2004 . accoona also received significant coverage from the webmaster community after many forum sites were spammed with promotional accoona entries . accoona was selected among the 50 coolest websites of year 2006 by time magazine 2 see also edit masterseek references edit http www.alleyinsider.com 2008 10 dead search engine accoona officially dead http www.time.com time business article 0 8599 1222614 00.html external links edit accoona supertarget official site and search engine portal accoona europe accoona china bill clinton goes searching from business 2.0 december 8 2004 . accoona moving up by getting low from alexa internet march 30 2005 . play chess against the ai accoona toolbar online accoona business model is based on pay per lead their platform is called www.exchangeplace.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title accoona & oldid 742364721 categories internet search engines navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 3 october 2016 at 07 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view