Facts & Figures The
name Teoma, is derived from the Gaelic word for "expert" . It is also Amo Te backwards
- Latin for "I Love You". Teoma grew
out of a federally funded project in 1998 at Rutgers University. The Teoma technology
team is led by Professor Apostolos Gerasoulis, who now serves as Teoma's chief
technology officer, and Professor Tao Yang, from University of California, Santa
Barbara, who is chief scientist and vice president of research and development.
Sep 2001: Ask Jeeves bought Teoma for an undisclosed
amount April 2002: According to Nielsen//NetRatings, Teoma.com,
which was taken out of beta on April 2, 2002, saw a 2100 percent increase in traffic
from approximately 25,000 unique users a month to nearly one million unique users
in April. Size: 1
Billion pages indexed and growing
Searches per day: ?? Popularity:
1 million unique users per month Low number
of links on their Home Page: 5
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