Search Engine Watch reports that Become.com, a shopping search engine is set to launch. The founders are previously of MySimon, which was acquired for $741M in CNET stock back in 2/00. Become's website says they are venture-backed but does not list VCs. MySimon raised over $25M and investors included Brentwood VC (Redpoint), Sprout Group (CSFB), Marquette VP, Intel, Citigroup.
According to Search Engine Lowdown: "Become.com has been 9-months in development and is currently in beta, pending its formal coming-out party (late February). Become is the first search engine for product and shopping information. Utilizing intelligent crawling and patented next generation ranking technologies, Become provides highly relevant and unbiased search results focused on product information: reviews, buying guides, forums, specs, etc."
Yawn.
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