Kosmix

Kosmix Corporation was a Mountain View, California topic-discovery and search company operating from roughly 2005 to 2011. Rather than returning a ranked list of links, Kosmix automatically assembled a topic "home page for the web" for any subject, aggregating and categorizing content across health, science, food, sports, politics, travel, finance and other verticals. The company also shipped the RightHealth, MeeHive and Tweetbeat properties, the last of which filtered and organized real-time Twitter activity by topic. Kosmix was acquired by Walmart in 2011 and became the nucleus of @WalmartLabs; kosmix.com later 301-redirected to walmartlabs.com and the domain no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a historical record. There is no live Kosmix developer surface, API, or documentation to enrich.

Kosmix is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Search, Discovery, Topic Pages, and Content Aggregation.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySearchDiscoveryTopic PagesContent AggregationSocial MediaDefunctAcquired

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: kosmix
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kosmix.png
name: Kosmix
description: Kosmix Corporation was a Mountain View, California topic-discovery and search company operating from roughly
  2005 to 2011. Rather than returning a ranked list of links, Kosmix automatically assembled a topic "home page for the web"
  for any subject, aggregating and categorizing content across health, science, food, sports, politics, travel, finance and
  other verticals. The company also shipped the RightHealth, MeeHive and Tweetbeat properties, the last of which filtered
  and organized real-time Twitter activity by topic. Kosmix was acquired by Walmart in 2011 and became the nucleus of @WalmartLabs;
  kosmix.com later 301-redirected to walmartlabs.com and the domain no longer resolves. This profile is retained as a historical
  record. There is no live Kosmix developer surface, API, or documentation to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kosmix/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-acquired
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Acquired by Walmart in 2011 and folded into @WalmartLabs. No live web, developer, or API surface remains.
x-acquired-by: walmart
x-successor: WalmartLabs
x-historical-domain: kosmix.com
x-enrichment-verdict: no-live-surface
x-enrichment-evidence:
- kosmix.com has no A/AAAA record (probed 2026-07-19); HTTPS unreachable.
- kosmix.com DNS is administered by Walmart -- SOA RNAME domainadmin.walmartlabs.com, _dmarc.kosmix.com CNAMEs to _dmarc-r.walmart.com,
  SPF is "v=spf1 -all" (no mail), CAA restricts issuance to globalsign.com.
- Domain registered via MarkMonitor, registry expiry 2027-05-26 -- held defensively, not operated.
- http://kosmix.com/about returned 301 to http://www.walmartlabs.com/ (Internet Archive snapshot 2012-09-11).
- 'Archived homepage (Internet Archive 2010-12-31) self-describes as "Kosmix: The web organized for you" and is copyright
  "2007-2010 Kosmix(TM) Corporation".'
- kosmix.ai is an unrelated growth-equity firm (Kosmix Partners); kosmix.io, kosmix.dev, kosmix.co and getkosmix.com do not
  resolve or do not serve.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Search
- Discovery
- Topic Pages
- Content Aggregation
- Social Media
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence