SearchEngineWatch (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com) announced on December 6 that a new Chinese-owned business search engine, headed by the former Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, will launch on December 6. The Accoona search engine (www.accoona.com) reportedly will list more than 30 million companies and include results found both from a web crawl and added proprietary information.
Accoona is owned by the China Daily Information Company in partnership with the China Communications Corp. With a database of over 20 million US companies and over 30 million companies worldwide, the user will be able to search for businesses utilizing a large array of criteria such as name, physical address, telephone, fax, business description, industry category, company's URL and geographic location.
