Advertise.com, Largest Private Pay per Click Network, Acquires Search Engine Aftervote.com

Acclaimed Social Search Site Uses Voting, Feedback and Community to Create a Platform for Unprecedented Search Relevancy

Sherman Oaks, CA, and New York, NY - (PRWEB) March 19, 2008 - Advertise.com, an Internext Media Corp. company and the world’s largest privately-held PPC search network, today announced the acquisition of social search site AfterVote.com. Under terms of the agreement, the company has acquired the domain and technology assets of AfterVote.com, for which a re-launch is expected June 1st. The revamped site will include an innovative user retention program as well as many additional enhancements.

AfterVote.com is a meta-search engine which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results culled from Google, Yahoo! and MSN, as well as social aggregate sites. AfterVote also provides community building features and enables discovery through friends and groups while giving users extraordinary control of the search parameters needed for accurate results based on their preferences.

AfterVote was recently named “Search Engine of the Month” by ReadWriteWeb, was included in the “Top 100 List of Alternative Search Engines” by AltSearchEngines and named to PC Magazine’s PCMag.com’s list of”Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites.”

Advertise.com is known for its ongoing efforts to protect advertisers against click fraud while delivering the highest quality traffic available. With AfterVote.com, Advertise.com will create a better way to search by infusing the best search results available on the web with a method to benefit from the previous work and feedback of millions of searchers. “We don’t intend to reinvent the wheel, we just want it to go faster,” said Daniel Yomtobian, President and CEO of Advertise.com.

AfterVote differentiates itself from other social search, ratings and community sites by letting users connect with each other and join groups; integrates searches from other social networks; provides superior privacy control; gives weight to preferred engines; and has the ability to redeem search points for Visa gift cards and much more.

Yomtobian added, “Google, Yahoo, and MSN have done a great job with their algorithms. But there is something missing when you rely purely on computer programs to determine relevancy. Although there have been a few previous attempts to solve this problem there still exists relevancy and scalability issues with other engines. AfterVote’s web-wide community will create the most relevant results and finally bridge the gap between machine and people-driven results. My vision is for AfterVote.com to become the best next-generation web search experience.”

Edi torial Contact:
Ann Shannon
PAN Communications
978.474.1900

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Advertise.com, a subsidiary of Internext Media Corp., is a world leader in online cost-per-click advertising and the architect of a network of targeted search engines and niche-specific directories which serves over 2 billion searches a month. The company delivers affordable pricing and a cadre of services to every client, and the most relevant, high quality search results to every end-user.