Infospace – niche with potential?

Infospace is active in both business areas: „mobile contents“ and „search“. The core issue of the search area is a meta search engine which at the present time includes sponsored links from Google, Yahoo and AskJeeves in the results. Infospace is increasing its range by signing partnerships with other search engines and portals. Recently it has announced the cooperation with the German search engine Seekport. In its press release Seekport quotes:

Seekport and the US company InfoSpace sign strategic alliance. Following some extracts to underline the business strategy of Infospace:

Seekport and the US company InfoSpace sign strategic alliance

Seekport offers innovative search technology, InfoSpace provides optimized search marketing / better match rate and higher revenues for Seekport.

Munich/Hamburg, September 26, 2005 – Seekport the innovative European search engine will cooperate with the US based company InfoSpace (NASDAQ: INSP), listed on the stock exchange, to increase future search marketing. This partnership offers Seekport better match rates and higher revenues generated by sponsored links.

Dr. Robert Biermann
Webeffekt AG
Magnusstr. 18
46535 Dinslaken
Germany
www.Webeffekt.de
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