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Founded by Eyal Halimi and Simon Gelfand in 2005.1
ArticlesBase was established by Eyal Halimi and Simon Gelfand in 2005 as a website providing a free platform for content producers to publish their work online (also known as article marketing). ArticlesBase offered international versions of the site for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, French and Hebrew readers. There were eventually over 3,000,000 articles published by 300,000 authors on the English site alone.
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