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@WalmartLabs (formerly named Kosmix) is an American privately held company in Mountain View, California. Their website earns revenue from advertising related to its categorization engine. The engine organizes the Internet into topic pages allowing users to explore the Web by topic, "presenting a dashboard of relevant videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics".〔 Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman founded Kosmix in 2005.〔 In April 2011 Walmart acquired Kosmix and formed @WalmartLabs, a research division, out of it.〔(Goodbye, Kosmix. Hello, @WalmartLabs ) 〕〔(Wal-Mart's Silicon Valley unit develops new search engine to battle eBay, Amazon - San Jose Mercury News ) 〕 == History == Harinarayan and Rajaraman were co-founders of Junglee, the first shopping search engine which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. They later created Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk〔 and started an early-stage VC fund, Cambrian Ventures, that backed several companies later acquired by Google.〔Ranganathan, Chandra and NS Ramnath. ("Men Who Spurn Google create Kosmix" ) ''The Economic Times''. 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 17 March 2009.〕 Kosmix initially introduced health site RightHealth, a vertical search engine, to demonstrate their approach to Web navigation.〔 Kosmix expanded its focus from vertical to a horizontal search engine in June 2008,〔 covering all subjects.〔Hendrickson, Mark. ("Kosmix Goes Horizontal" ) TechCrunch. 25 June 2008. Retrieved 25 March 2009 〕 For a key word or topic that a user enters, "Kosmix gathers content from across the Web to build a sort of multimedia encyclopedia entry on the fly. The company has built a taxonomy of nearly five million categories on a wide range of topics. The taxonomy includes millions of connections mapping the relationship among those categories." 〔Helft, Michael. ("Just Don't Compare Kosmix to Google" ) ''The New York Times''. 14 March 2009. Retrieved on 18 March 2009.〕 Kosmix launched a personal news site called MeeHive in March, 2008 which is similar to Google News or MyYahoo!, but allows users to customize their interests to a greater degree.〔 Meehive was shut down in October 2010.〔(Kosmix Kills Off MeeHive's Custom News Service As It Focuses On TweetBeat | TechCrunch ) 〕 Kosmix launched tweetbeat in June 2010 as it entered the social media arena.〔(Kosmix Unleashes Its Realtime Tweetbeat On The World Cup | TechCrunch ) 〕 Kosmix was acquired by Walmart in April/May 2011 as it opened @WalmartLabs for a rumored amount of 300M US$.〔(Datawocky: Goodbye, Kosmix. Hello, @WalmartLabs ) 〕〔(Wal-Mart Stores Paid $300 Million for Social Site Kosmix - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD ) 〕 In June 2012, Harinarayan and Rajaraman announced that they would be leaving the company to take some time off, with no immediate plans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「@WalmartLabs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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