InfoSpace

Infospace, Inc. was an American company that offered private label search engine, online directory, and provider of metadata feeds.

The company's flagship metasearch site was Dogpile and its other notable consumer brands were WebCrawler and MetaCrawler.

After a 2012 rename to Blucora, the InfoSpace business unit was sold to data management company OpenMail.

[2] InfoSpace provided content and services, such as phone directories, maps, games and information on the stock market, to websites and mobile device manufacturers.

InfoSpace then earned money by taking a small percentage of licensing, subscription or advertising fees.

Company executives skirted SEC trading restrictions to sell large blocks of their personal stock.

[14] In early March 2003, InfoSpace sued Jain alleging he violated non-compete agreements in his role at newly founded Intelius.

[32] In a shareholder lawsuit filed in 2003, a lower court federal judge ruled that former InfoSpace CEO, Naveen Jain, had purchased shares of InfoSpace in violation of six month short swing insider trading rules, and issued a $247 million judgment against him, the largest award of its kind at that time.