Superfish was founded by Adi Pinhas and Michael Chertkof in 2006 with funding from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company was created to develop and market visual search products and its first product was WindowShopper, a browser add-on that allowed users to hover over images and be redirected to shopping websites, in 2011.
In 2014 Superfish products had more than 80 million users.
In 2015 the company faced a public outcry over a security scandal involving scans of SSL-encrypted web traffic by Superfish Visual Search software that had been pre-installed on Lenovo machines. As early as 2010, Mozilla Firefox, Apple, and Microsoft Windows users had also expressed concerns about the software.
In 2015 the team behind Superfish moved over to JustVisual, closing Superfish for good.
Superfish
Superfish was founded by Adi Pinhas and Michael Chertkof in 2006 with funding from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company was created to develop and market visual search products and its first product was WindowShopper, a browser add-on that allowed users to hover over images and be redirected to shopping websites, in 2011.
In 2014 Superfish products had more than 80 million users.
In 2015 the company faced a public outcry over a security scandal involving scans of SSL-encrypted web traffic by Superfish Visual Search software that had been pre-installed on Lenovo machines. As early as 2010, Mozilla Firefox, Apple, and Microsoft Windows users had also expressed concerns about the software.
History
In 2015 the team behind Superfish moved over to JustVisual, closing Superfish for good.