Accoona

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Accoona is a New Jersey based-internet company. Their main product is a search engine that claims 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 former Compaq chairman Eckhard Pfeiffer.

1 Features
- 1.1 Business profile searches
- 1.2 SuperTarget
2 Partnerships
3 Press
4 External links

[edit] Features

[edit] Business profile searches

Accoona claims to have the largest proprietary online database of information on companies worldwide. Over 5 million of these companies are privately held companies in China.

[edit] SuperTarget

Accoona's SuperTarget feature allows a user to select one keyword, and sort search results such that the selected keyword is prioritized over the other search terms.

[edit] Partnerships

Accoona formed a 20-year exclusive partnership with Chinadaily.com.cn. Through this partnership, with China Daily and its widespread Chinese affiliates, Accoona expects 10 million hits daily from the otherwise isolated Chinese user base.

[edit] Press

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.^{[citation needed]} A developer for Alexa Internet referenced the marketing technique on his blog on March 30, 2005.^{[citation needed]}