NBC

===NBCi===

[[File:NBCi.jpeg|thumb|right|upright=2.73|NBCi header used from 1999 to 2007]]
In 1999, NBC launched NBCi (briefly changing its web address to "www.nbci.com"), a heavily advertised online venture serving as an attempt to launch a [[web portal]]. This move saw NBC partner with [[Xoom (web hosting)|Xoom.com]] (not to be confused with the current [[Xoom Corporation|money transfer service]]), e-mail.com, [[AllBusiness.com]],<ref>{{cite web|title=NBCi agrees to acquire AllBusiness.com|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/nbci-agrees-to-acquire-allbusiness-com/|website=[[CNET]]|date=February 1, 2000|access-date=April 28, 2016|first=Greg|last=Sandoval|archive-date=March 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310210544/http://www.cnet.com/news/nbci-agrees-to-acquire-allbusiness-com/|url-status=live}}</ref> and Snap.com (eventually acquiring all four companies outright; not to be confused with the [[Snap Inc.|current-day parent]] of [[Snapchat]]) to launch a multi-faceted internet portal with e-mail, web hosting, community, chat and personalization capabilities, and news content. Subsequently, in April 2000, NBC purchased GlobalBrain, a company specializing in [[search engine]]s that learned from searches initiated by its users, for $32&nbsp;million.

The experiment lasted roughly one season; after its failure, NBCi's operations were folded back into NBC.<ref>{{cite web|title=NBC to take NBCi back in-house|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-to-take-nbci-back-in-house/|website=[[CNET]]|date=January 2, 2002|access-date=April 28, 2016|first=Jim|last=Hu|archive-date=June 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629221642/http://www.cnet.com/news/nbc-to-take-nbci-back-in-house/|url-status=live}}</ref> The NBC Television portion of the website reverted to NBC.com. However, the NBCi website continued in operation as a portal for NBC-branded content (NBCi.com would be redirected to NBCi.msnbc.com), using a co-branded version of [[InfoSpace]] to deliver minimal portal content. In mid-2007, NBCi.com began to mirror the main NBC.com website;<ref>{{cite web|title=Archives of NBCi.com|url=http://NBCi.com|work=Wayback Machine|publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=January 29, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205203438/http://nbci.msnbc.com/nbci.asp |archive-date=December 5, 2006}}</ref> NBCi.com was eventually redirected to the NBC.com domain in 2010.  Only one legacy of this direction remains in the website of then-O&O [[WCMH-TV]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]] (now owned by [[Nexstar Media Group|Nexstar]]), which continues to use the URL "nbc4i.com".