 Mamma.com was launched in July 1996 by Herman Tumurcuoglu in Montreal, Canada.It was one of the web's first tier 2 metasearch engines.Copernic Technologies Inc. was incorporated In July, 1996, under the name Agents Technology, Inc.

On December 22, 2005, Mamma.com completed its acquisition of Copernic Technologies Inc., a search technology company founded in July 1996 in Quebec City and maker of the desktop search utility Copernic Desktop Search.