Meta Search Engine Sold for $101,000 on eBay
Remember Jux2, the award winning meta search engine which was jetisoned by its owners who are focusing on other projects, then relaunched just in time for a listing on eBay auctions? Well the Jux2 meta search engine was just sold on eBay for a bid of $101,000.
Not a bad price for a search engine & meta technology which has been on the shelf for over a year. Just imagine how much the engine would have brought in if it had actually been up and running since April of 2004 and had more than 128 incoming links indexed on Google. I had originally predicted that Jux2 would go for $20,000, which was tremendously different than the selling price. Guess I’m not ready for the Price is Right after all.
If you missed out on the Jux2 auction don’t be let down. Such a good idea and the $101,000 price tag will probably lead to copycats on eBay. Do a search for “search engine” on eBay and you’ll see listings such as SurfCactus and SeekRacer fetching about $10 to $15 each, probably just trash PPC scripts that have been up and running for a day or two.
If such a simple meta-search engine like Jux2 can be sold for more than $100k, what could I get for eTools which is running on top of a solid J2EE framework, capable of accessing any protocol and format (not just HTTP and HTML)?
Ok, I live in Europe…
Please, don’t be a moron. Stupidity is painful to all around you and as such you should be punished by watching BArney reruns until your death.
That auction was shilled to that price. If you take a look you will see 3 bidders with 0 feedback all registered on October 25th. Beware
[...] Jux2, the meta-search engine that allows users to compare search results from three major search engines, has announced the launch of several new search enhancements such as the inclusion of MSN search results and a Firefox extension that makes it possible to search Jux2 directly from the browser. As a refresher, Jux2 was on the auction block at the beginning of the year and then acquired via eBay auctions by Douglas Baker. [...]
[...] The online calendar startup Kiko has been sold on eBay for $258K. The bidding story is here. Following the successful sale of the meta-search engine Jux2 for $101K, eBay is really becoming a plausible way to cash out. [...]
[...] About a year ago, the award-winning metasearch engine, Jux2, was posted for sale on eBay. With the assistance of some faster-than human bidding software, we won the auction and bought it. [...]
[...] Wize uses content aggregation technology from Jux2 to power Wize.com and Wize Rank, which is an award-winning metasearch engine. Doug Baker had bought Jux2 in a sale on eBay, last year, for $101,000. Wize does not aim to index every product available but aims for products with critical mass. If a product doesn’t have multiple reviews, it might not show up on Wize. [...]
Nice, it was a good search engine, but the results are not at the good side of the whole thing. With spamming your keyword description tag and meta tag you achieve good placements. That not the way you have to do it!
Otherside, i love gsm simlock verwijderen, simlock vrij maken.