I used to work at an agency where I helped lead search strategies for Fortune 500 companies (clients such as Adobe, Salesforce, CondeNast, and SanDisk) and eventually started my own SEO consulting practice.
The company recently won a contextual ad deal (against Google) with CondeNast. Convera Focusing on Vertical Search for Publishers As Kevin Newcomb recently posted here Convera has sold it's RetrievalWare enterprise search business to FAST Search...
The company recently won a contextual ad deal (against Google) with CondeNast. Miva's focus on certain verticals and web publishers allows it to make better contextual matches, which was a big selling point for CondeNast.