The group's principal activities are to provide Internet search-targeted marketing solutions for online businesses globally. The group operates through two business segments: listing and licensing. The listing product segment provides businesses of all sizes to include listings for their company and product pages in relevant search results. The products include both inclusion-targeted listings and keyword-targeted listings and are sold directly to advertisers or indirectly through advertising agencies. The licensing business segment revenues are derived from licensing the database content to the group's partners that include microsoft. In 2003, the group acquired substantially all the assets of grub inc.