Business Research Coming Soon: For Your Radar Screen
A new web-based business research engine, Accoona.com, is set to launch on Monday. You'll find more info (Accoona will offer info about thousands of businesses worldwide using and open web crawl and proprietary resources) along with a countdown clock here. Accoona is owned by the China Daily Information Company in partnership with the China Communications Corp. From a news release, "Accoona, in addition to web spiders that populate and update its database, has access to hundreds of millions of records from worldwide sources, delivering the richest and most robust database for search results. 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."
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