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BizShark

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Industry
  
Internet

Founded
  
2009

Headquarters
  
Mountain View

Type of business
  
Private

Products
  
Bizshark Business Search

Website
  
Bizshark Internet Business Search

Bizshark is an Internet business search engine and web directory specially designed for competitor analysis, marketing research, business development, and other business processes. Bizshark aggregates the latest business profiles, news, financials, competitive landscape, web analytics, social footprint, marketing strategies, execute contacts, and other business information across more than fifty online and offline databases.

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Technology

Bizshark is a vertical search engine specialized in organizing business-related information across the Web. The types of business information that Bizshark aggregates include: business operation profile, blog and news mentions, financial numbers, market competition, web traffic analytics, social media footprint, search marketing strategies, and executive contact information. The primary databases where Bizshark gets its information are Wikipedia, Crunchbase, Technorati, Compete, and Google Search. The secondary sources include Yahoo, Quantcast, Alexa, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Indeed, and BackType. In total, Bizshark aggregates more than 50 online and offline business databases.

Competitor Analysis

Bizshark sets itself apart from conventional business search engines with its competitor analysis capabilities. Bizshark's proprietary CompetitorSort algorithm can automatically identify, sort, and rank all potential competitors by analyzing business name and web link correlations across the Web. With CompetitorSort algorithm, Bizshark enables business professionals to easily benchmark any business performance against its market competition.

Business model

Bizshark's features are mostly free, and there is no ad. Bizshark supports its operations by charging businesses 19 dollars/month for advanced analytics and executive contact information.

References

BizShark Wikipedia