Seznam

Seznam.cz (or just Seznam, which means directory in English) is a web portal and search engine in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1996 by Ivo Lukačovič in Prague as the first web portal in the Czech Republic. Seznam started with a search engine and an internet version of yellow pages. Today, Seznam runs almost 30 different web services and associated brands. Seznam had more than 6 million real users per month at the end of 2014. Among the most popular services, according to NetMonitor, are its homepage seznam.cz, email.cz, search.seznam.cz and its yellow pages firmy.cz.In the Czech market, Seznam.cz was until 2008 in competition with the portals Centrum.cz and Atlas.cz. These two portals, despite merging in 2008, no longer appear likely to overcome Seznam in the near future. Seznam’s biggest competitor now appears to be global Google, especially in the area of full-text search.
As of May 2012, according to Toplist results, Seznam was the second internet search engine in the Czech Republic (42.84%) with Google in the top spot (54.69%).. By August 2014, still according to Toplist’s statistics, Seznam’s share of searches had further eroded to 38%.
Seznam, like four other companies in the world, was for a long time the number one search engine in its region. Other such search engines are Baidu (China), Naver (South Korea), Yahoo Japan (Japan) and Yandex (Russia).Between 2011 and 2012, Seznam Czech rhyme; Seznam – najdu tam, co hledám (Seznam – I find there, what I search for) as its slogan. Its former (& current) slogan is Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám (Seznam – I find there, what I don’t know).