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Inversearch - A new kind of Search Engine for Businesses and Consumers

Take the typical Internet search and turn it on its ear. The result is InverSearch (http://www.inversearch.com), the new, patent-pending Internet search engine that’s like no other search engine before more...
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Startup ChaCha Dances with Mobile Search

Anne Zelenka describes what this startup ChaCha is planning to do: effective searching, which often involves orienteering — finding information step-by-step, and using local context at each step as a more...
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Wink - A People Search Engine

Wink is a people search engine which lets you control your identity. People search engine Wink, the less bubbly but more filling competitor to Spock, is adding an interesting antilibel feature. Now, if more...
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Natural Language Search Engine: Powerset

Licensed from PARC, this promising startup is taking shots at Google territory. more...
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Greylock Partners Invests In Stealth Search Engine Cuill

Cuill, which was founded by husband and wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, can supposedly index web pages at 1/10th the cost of Google (a significant competitive advantage) and has claims of relevance more...
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Powerset: A new search engine using 'natural language' search

After working on the 'natural language' search for over 2 years, licensed by PARC, they just might have it right. more...
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TrueKnowledge Demos Its Semantic Search Engine

TrueKnowledge combines natural language analysis, an internal knowledge base and external databases to offer immediate answers to various questions. Instead of just pointing you to web pages where the more...
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Twenga Gets €2.6 Million For Product Search

Techcrunch is reporting that Twenga raised €2.6 Million in funding. Twenga is a meta search engine for products from online merchants. more...
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With human-powered search engine, Mahalo takes a step forward

“We’re somewhere in between Google, which is automated, and Wikipedia, which is put together by people,” Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo said in a phone call. “We believe search as a problem more...
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Search Engine Marketing Firm Kenshoo Raises Funds

Using end-to-end search marketing operating on an automated technology for advertising campaigns, and a central feature of the company’s suite of offerings is its longtail keyword expansion, Kenshoo more...
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