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.
aid: kosmix
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
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: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Search
- Discovery
- Topic Pages
- Content Aggregation
- Social-Media
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- 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
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/walmart/
name: Walmart
x-relationship: acquired
x-evidence: Kosmix was acquired by Walmart in 2011 and became the nucleus of @WalmartLabs; kosmix.
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