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SweetIM

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http://search.sweetim.com

     
Language Multilingual
Launched 2005 or earlier
Closed No
Developer Sherman, Robert
Country of Origin Israel
Owner
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)
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.« Source

Today it is a search interface using Bing. Source

Name

Critical points
SweetIM offers next too the search engine a toolbar and desktop search, witch earns a lot of critics. See e.g.: Source

Features & Functionality
The Image search is a link to the Google Image search [kd2016].

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References & further Publications
Wikipedia (EN): n.a.
Wikipedia (Others): n.a.
     

Other Sources
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
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