Quixey Search Engine Targets Social Media Apps
By Rob Scott
August 9, 2011
August 9, 2011
- Quixey is an app-specialized search engine funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
- The service hopes to make it simpler for social media users (developers and consumers) to find applications and widgets for social networks.
- Last week, Quixey got closer to that goal when it added Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Foursquare integration.
- The engine also indexes and categorizes tools and apps based on social chatter, blog posts, reviews and other third-party descriptions of their function. The search technology bypasses the clutter by efficiently mining data and app-related keywords.
- Quixey co-founder Tomer Kagan explains: “A lot of apps on Facebook [for example] don’t even have a description attached — just a name. From a search perspective, if all you have to work with is like three words, it’s extremely difficult.”
- The Mountain View, CA startup has raised $400,000 in seed money from Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.
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