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> Chicago-based firm’s units include Merriam-Webster, Melingo AI I'm guessing it's the last two letters that are going to get them that valuation.
by paxys 3y ago
> Chicago-based firm’s units include Merriam-Webster, Melingo AI
I'm guessing it's the last two letters that are going to get them that valuation.
- internetter 3y agoI feel like Melingo was just created for the valuation bump. There's next to no information about it.
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- beejiu 3y agoChecking Ahrefs, melingo.com gets an estimated 36 sessions per month. Encyclopaedia Britannica is positioning itself not only as a tech firm, but an AI firm. What's going on?
- dpflan 3y agoThey are an information company, authoritative and trusted. They must be positioning themselves with data as a service, like the recent Reddit contract.
- wolverine876 3y ago> They must be positioning themselves with data as a service, like the recent Reddit contract. Britannica has a contract with Reddit? I tried searching around online but didn't find anything.
- internetter 3y agoNo. Reddit entered a 60 million dollar AI contract with google.
- internetter 3y agoI mean, Ahrefs puts my traffic at half that, and my analytics report 20k sessions this month (not that it's high, but it's certainly not 15). No clue where Ahrefs gets those numbers from.
- nickpsecurity 3y agoWe need high quality data to train foundational models. Many of us thought textbooks, encyclopedias, etc were a great way to start. I have a list of names of every type of encyclopedia set on eBay for that exact reason. One was Britannica.