Accoona Search Engine Disappears : Does Anyone Care?

October 7th, 2008 by Loren Baker, Editor | 13 Comments

When a search engine that has an incredibly miniscule percentage of the search market share fails, does anyone listen?

Over the weekend Accoona, the same China backed search engine that had Bill Clinton speak at its launch party and was giving away cars left and right as recent as a year ago, has closed its doors.

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 tried reinventing itself many times right out of the gate, claiming to have its own AI technology to rerank Google web results, then deliver targeted news results, filing an $80.5 Million IPO, and launching a ‘talking’ toolbar.

The company has now faded away to nothing, atleast to the consumer. I wonder what is happening to its toolbar info tracking and proprietary AI?

Comments

13 responses so far ↓

Barry Schwartz on Oct 7, 2008 at 6:54 am

that is sad.
Internet marketer Leeds on Oct 7, 2008 at 6:58 am

Well I missed there inception. Looks like their exit from the world might be getting better publicity than their entry into it.
NZ Scholar on Oct 7, 2008 at 9:05 am

such a sad news for all accoona users.
WebSite Design Orange County on Oct 7, 2008 at 9:22 am

So longa accoona!
ChinaKDD on Oct 7, 2008 at 10:05 am

nobody care.
PChere on Oct 7, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Google rules everywhere.
vipey on Oct 7, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Nope nobody cares, its the same as Cuil, its just alot of spin and fuss about nothing

Google rules and for the foreseeable future they will continue to

i think theres possible room in the market for an image and video search engine but will need a lot of luck
Pablo on Oct 7, 2008 at 7:09 pm

I wonder how many times you’ll go to a search engine and find that message within the next 1-4 years. Anyone? bets?
Saad Kamal on Oct 8, 2008 at 5:22 am

I dont think anyone would care much..
David C. on Oct 9, 2008 at 8:20 am

We helped promoting Accoona in Paris during a profile raising event. We showcased Accoona with searches for highly competitive keywords in the them of Education, Arts and culture. I was impressed with its potential myself as some of the results were more accurate than those from the big search engine gorillas, but I supposed it is not just about having good ideas, a good product, or the right infrastructure, in the the SE market nowadas you have to be increadibly strong both financially and operationally to be able to compete with the larger search engines… bye Accoona
يوتيوب on Oct 31, 2008 at 5:31 am

I wonder how many times you’ll go to a search engine and find that message within the next 1-4 years. Anyone? bets?
horny stories on Dec 24, 2008 at 3:37 am

Thankyou
يوتيوب on Apr 27, 2009 at 6:20 am

than those from the big search engine gorillas, but I supposed it is not just about having good ideas, a good product, or the right infrastructure, in the the SE market nowadas you have to be increadibly strong both financially and operationally to be able to compete with the larger search engines… bye Accoona