Reston, Va. -- Frazoo, a San Diego-based search engine company offering pay-per-click advertising, said on Tuesday that it has acquired Reston-based in-text ad network BrandClik. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Joshua Konowe, the co-founder and CEO of BrandClik, will continue to work out of the company's current offices for the immediate future, a company spokesman said. Frazoo said that the acquisition will allow it to offer in-text ads to clients looking for an alternative to online bidding networks. BrandClik's technology tags brand name keywords and creates links to a chosen web site that aren't activated until a user manually clicks them. The company, founded last year by Konowe and Lowell Perry, calls its platform non-intrusive compared with other ad methods. BrandClik's clients include online newspapers, blogs, web sites and local and national advertisers.

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