agreed in November 2000 to acquire Infoseek Japan for $81 million. In December 2005, Verity was acquired by Autonomy PLC. Under Autonomy, Ultraseek ceased to be a stand-alone product and became a modular component under the IDOL platform. It continued to be developed and marketed as Autonomy's entry-level keyword-based site search offering until after Autonomy was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in October 2011. Domain name The "infoseek.com" domain name redirects to "go.com" and the Infoseek brand name is no longer used in North America. However, the Australian domain and the Japanese domain still operate with the Infoseek name. The Japanese domain name now operates as a web portal known as "Rakuten Infoseek". See also List of search engines List of assets owned by Disney References External links Infoseek (Archive) Infoseek Australia Infoseek Japan Defunct internet search engines Internet properties established in 1994 Internet properties disestablished in 2001 Companies based in Sunnyvale, California Disney acquisitions Dot-com bubble 1998 mergers and acquisitions 1994 establishments in California 1996 initial public offerings