Launched in January 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Created as part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin, its initiative was to develop tools for large-scale directory services to support electronic commerce.
Einet was purchased in April 1995 by SunRiver Corporation (now called BoundlessTech), who changed the name to TradeWave Corporation and Galaxy became a commercial entity. In 1997 Galaxy was purchased by CyberGuard, who in turn sold it in September 1998 to America's Health Network, famed for broadcasting the first live Internet birth.
In May 1999, Fox/News Corporation became co-owner of Galaxy as part of the AHN and FitTV merger. This created The Health Network, the world's largest Cable/Internet Health Content and Distribution company. The Health Network was then sold to Healtheon/WebMD in January 2000 as part of $1 billion deal between the News Corp and WebMD. Subsequently, Galaxy was relaunched as it own company in May 2000 as www.Galaxy.com, LLC.
In June 2001, Logika Corporation (owner of www.NameDroppers.com, www.FusionBot.com and www.First-Search.com) bought www.Galaxy.com. The Galaxy and First-Search directories and technologies were merged, enabling Galaxy access to Logika's search software technology including relevancy, heuristics, query language, spider and crawl functions.
source: www.galaxy.com / info / history.html
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