
SweetIM
Language | Multilingual | |
Launched | 2005 or earlier | |
Closed | No | |
Developer | Sherman, Robert | |
Country of Origin | Israel | |
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2005 - 2012 | SweetIM | |
2012 - [...] | Perion | |
Topic | Universal | |
Region | No Limitation | |
Technology and/or Strategy |
Search Interface / Search API Browser Hijack, Spyware, Adware (installed without the users permission) |
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Used SeEn | Bing | |
Older Version | Internet Archive / WebCite | |
Originally »SweetIM Technologies Ltd. develops technologies and content for online platforms. The company offers SweetIM, a fun upgrade for web based application, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, and AIM & ICQ instant messenger applications. Its platform adds fun emoticons (smileys), animations (winks), flash games, videos, sounds, nudges, display pictures, backgrounds, and other fun stuff to user’s messengers. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Raanana, Israel.«
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Today it is a search interface using Bing. Source | ||
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Critical points |
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SweetIM offers next too the search engine a toolbar and desktop search, witch earns a lot of critics. See e.g.: Source | ||
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The Image search is a link to the Google Image search [kd2016]. | ||
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Wikipedia (EN): n.a. | ||
Wikipedia (Others): n.a. | ||
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BUSINESS WIRE (2017): Perion Extends and Enhances 3 Years Agreement with Bing: Extended Agreement Through 2020, Bolstering The Relationship Between Perion and Microsoft’s search engine, Bing URL: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171026005664/en/Perion-Extends-Enhances-3-Years-Agreement-Bing | ||
Brodovsky S., Rosset S. (2011): A/B testing at SweetIM: The importance of proper statistical analysis. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM, , art. no. 6137453 , pp. 733-740. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6137453/ | ||
SweetIM Crunchbase URL: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sweetim |
Created: 2013-03-16