Thomson announced it clearly few months ago : they were looking for someone to take Profound and Newsedge over. The deal, undisclosed yet, was signed last Friday. Officialy, The acquisition expands MarketResearch.com's international reach with additional content and sales presence in Europe and North America. Profound provides a closed-platform, market research service that complements MarketResearch.com's open-format, web-based service.

When we know how hardly is working Profound search engine, we can doubt of the sincerity of this last info ! Nevertheless, this proove that the information industry it still structuring itself by acquisition. And playing this game, Marketresearch is now (really) becoming one player to look at.