UK online information services provider The Dialog Corporation Plc has snapped up the remaining 30% of search engine developer Muscat Ltd it did not own. Dialog bought 70% of Muscat in August 1997 when Dialog was known as Maid Plc (CI No 3,226). Dialog will pay 2.5m pounds ($4.1m) for the stake. Both firms are […]
UK online information services provider The Dialog Corporation Plc has snapped up the remaining 30% of search engine developer Muscat Ltd it did not own. Dialog bought 70% of Muscat in August 1997 when Dialog was known as Maid Plc (CI No 3,226). Dialog will pay 2.5m pounds ($4.1m) for the stake. Both firms are based in Cambridge, UK.
Dialog COO Patrick Sommers said that the two sets of software would be fully integrated and commercially available as the k-working product in the first quarter. Dialog is restructuring its sales organization to make the knowledge management sector one of three key areas alongside information portals and decision support. Sommers expects knowledge management revenue to provide up to 20% of the corporation’s revenue.
Dialog is also developing an internet search engine WebTop.com, which uses Muscat’s retrieval technology, but is coy about speaking about it before the launch in December. Muscat’s technology runs searches on unstructured information and trains agents that identify and automatically deliver information of potential interest.
