Familiar faces are leaving InfoSpace since the Motricity and SuperPages acquisitions have closed. Shareholder pressure for short term value, has left the organization with Dogpile, Infospace and a couple of other .coms. As a consumer name, it’s not well known, although Dogpile was ranked tops by JD Power and Associates in customer satisfaction, InfoSpace’s search market share stands at less than 1%.
Once worth more than $14B, achieving that may be an impossible task unless new product development and business models are put into action. Metasearch and general search opportunities seem more attractive if coupled with local search.
