Search Engines: Who Owns Who
Who Owns Who
- Yahoo! owns AllTheWeb, Lycos and AltaVista. Yahoo! also owns and uses Inktomi’s technology and database for all the partnering engines under its wing.
- Google partners with AOL, it is also a major result provider for many large engines because of its own cutting-edge technology (Netscape, Ask.com, Iwon).
- Live Search does not own anybody and uses its own database (since February, 2005).