Wikio

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Wikio News was a European information portal . It went online in France on June 19, 2006 , and has been available in other countries since December 2006. The service was discontinued in November 2011. Previously, the parent company Wikio Group had bought up the blog service Trigami, through which bloggers were supposed to get paid posts, and merged with Overblog. The activities were initially continued as Ebuzzing, which merged with the video advertising company Teads in March 2014. An online shop is now operated under the old URL wikio.de, which no longer has anything to do with the previous news platform or its search engine technology.

Unlike news search engines such as Google News , Wikio obtained its information from a variety of media , including news sites, blogs, and personal websites of consumers and retailers' websites. A multilingual semantic search engine , which was developed by the French software company Sinequa, was used for this purpose. Wikio contained sources in German , English , French , Spanish and Italian . Wikio published a ranking of blogs in different categories on the 5th of each month. After the merger with Overblog, Wikio Group had over 25 million users worldwide.

Wikio was founded by Pierre Chappaz , the developer of the price comparison portal Kelkoo , which was bought by Yahoo in 2004. The Wikio Labs department, where new projects were tested, was headed by Jean Véronis, a French computer science professor specializing in computational linguistics who died in 2013 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jojo: Wikio started in Germany. internetmarketing-news.de, December 12, 2006, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Beuth, Marie-Catherine: Fusion de Wikio et Overblog. Le Figaro, September 6, 2010, accessed on December 13, 2014 (French, Le Figaro, Économie).
  3. ^ Les start-up Wikio et Overblog fusion. Le Monde, September 6, 2010, accessed December 13, 2014 (French, Le Monde, Technologies).
  4. ↑ Thomas Ohr: Wikio Group becomes ebuzzing and raises $ 25m. EU Startups, August 31, 2011, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  5. ^ Pierre Chappaz: Wikio est mort, vive Ebuzzing! August 31, 2011, accessed December 5, 2014 (French).
  6. ^ Wikio Group lève 25M $ et devient Ebuzzing. Wikio, September 4, 2011, accessed December 5, 2014 (French).
  7. ↑ Annette Mattgey: Ebuzzing and Teads: In future, a name, a video advertising offer. Lead digital, October 6, 2014, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Lot 20 blogs más influyentes del mundo. El País, January 9, 2008, accessed December 6, 2014 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Yahoo buys Kelkoo. golem.de, March 26, 2004, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Disparations. Mort de Jean Véronis, universitaire curieux et blogueur passionné. Le Monde.fr, September 12, 2013, accessed December 5, 2014 (obituary for Jean Véronis).
  11. ↑ see also Jean Véronis on the French Wikipedia.