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Until April 2002, LookSmart was the world's largest professionally edited directory with 2.5 million URLs organized into more than 250,000 categories.

LookSmart's recent, unpopular move into the PPC payment model has reduced its content dramatically - reducing it, some say, to a highly overrated source when looking for quality sites by search.

Founded in Australia and headquartered in San Francisco, LookSmart has offices in London, Melbourne, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York and Sydney. LookSmart features Zeal, a community-driven directory that allows anyone to contribute NFP sites, manage categories, and collaborate with a team of professional editors to build the directory.

Latest LookSmart news:

www.shareholder.com / looksmart / releases.cfm

LookSmart acquire WiseNut, Inc., valued at $9.25 million. Voted CNET's Editor's Choice for "Up and Coming Search Engines" in December 2001, WiseNut is a next generation search engine technology that combines link analysis with contextual clustering.

This article was first published on 02 May 2003 and does not necessarily match current events or the current opinions and views of bigmouthmedia ltd.