TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a new kind of smartphone app-based search engine, Xayn. “A A search engine?!” Well, yes, because despite the convenience of modern search engines’ ability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of privacy. I hear you say?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Meilisearch , the creator behind the open source search engine project of the same name, today closed a $15 million Series A round led by Felicis, with participation from CRV, LocalGlobe, ESOP, Mango Capital, Seedcamp and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. “[Search is often] very hard and expensive for a team to maintain and tune.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The company has created a search engine optimization (SEO) platform so that your content is better indexed and appears more often in search results. They respect the terms of services of search engines, they don’t scrape search results for insights, they don’t create shady backlinks on other websites.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com , a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. And it’s a trusted search engine. He said that there were several major issues that led him and his co-founders to build a new search tool. “We are building you.com.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Well, this is straight from the desk of “didn’t see that coming,” but search engine toolkit company Ahrefs just told me they’ve been working on their very own search engine on the sly, plowing $60 million of resources into its own search engine, called Yep. So, er, $60 million without external investment?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal in the space raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accurate technology. “The job search is aspirational.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The natural world has produced many of our most important medicines, but instead of looking under a leaf or rock for the next big cancer drug, Pragma Bio is searching within the human body — its swarm of resident microbes, to be precise.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Register In an effort to help address persistent unemployment and underemployment in the Philippines, the Asticom Group of Companies, a shared services provider under the Globe Group, has launched a new platform that promises to revolutionize job and talent search. Launched on January 19, Acquiro Solutions and Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Around 15% of website traffic comes through paid search ads. We’ve tested thousands of paid search ads at Demand Curve and through our agency Bell Curve. This post breaks down 14 questions your paid search ads should answer to ensure you’re only paying for the highest-intent shoppers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The company is best known for its search-as-a-service product. It lets you integrate real-time search in your app or website using a developer-friendly API. Using an Algolia-powered search feature feels like using Spotlight on a Mac. trillion search queries per year — that’s a 1,500,000,000,000 if you want to see all the zeros.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Sourcegraph , a late stage startup that wants to bring the power of search to code, announced a $125 million Series D investment today on a $2.625 billion valuation, a 3x growth from its previous valuation in December 2020, according to the company. “They’re all drowning in code, and we help solve that.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Berlin-based Jina.ai , an open-source startup that uses neural search to help its users find information in their unstructured data (including videos and images), today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners. New investor Mango Capital, as well as existing investors GGV Capital, SAP.iO

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 3, 2022

Search Engine Optimisation for beginners. This podcast focuses on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and covers the basics starting with what SEO actually is and simple tactics to help your business appear/rank on Google organically. Get your tickets at www.nzsmeefestival.com or hear more about the event below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

most read Microsoft and AI: This week at a press event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that “it’s a new day for search.” He was referring to the company’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 into Bing, its 13-year-old search engine. Check out Frederic’s hands-on with the search engine. Wanna get more in-depth?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This morning MealMe.ai , a food search engine, announced that it has closed a $900,000 pre-seed round. The company’s product allows users to search for food, or a restaurant. But Mealme didn’t start out looking to build a search engine. From social network to search engine.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine. It is a unique type of AI-first database using machine learning models outputting vectors, also known as embeddings, hence the name vector search engine, said Bob van Luijt, SeMI’s CEO and co-founder. Small notes on big news. SeMI raised a $1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Demand Curve: Questions you need to answer in your paid search ads. At some point, almost every early-stage startup will use paid search ads to connect with customers and throw down the gauntlet with their competitors. Most of these initial attempts at paid search are unsuccessful. ” Question 1? What’s in it for me ?”.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

My favorite time of year in New England is early Fall. The heat and humidity of summer are gone, and the air is crisp and clear. Separating the cities of Boston and Cambridge, the Charles River is alive with sailors from several local universities and the Community Boating center.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Censys , a search engine for Internet of Things devices and internet assets, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

From writing your resume for you to automating networking emails, there are tons of ways AI can help streamline your job search. But there are also a lot of bad ways to use AI for job searching, so I scoured the trove of AI job search tools, use cases, and how-tos out there to find the best options.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Neeva is getting its generative AI search engine out to a wider audience, Paul writes. Daily Crunch: Generative AI search engine NeevaAI rolls out subscription service to more countries by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Temperature check : If you’re tracking your fertility, Samsung has an app for that.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

New York-based point.me , the makers of an online search tool that makes it easy to discover real-time reward flight options, has raised $2 million in seed funding led by PAR Capital Ventures. plans to continue to expand its product range and enhance the capabilities of the search engine, which will require a deeper engineering team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

. “Our IP and what is special is how you take the addition and multiplication central to encryption and build them into complex business functionality.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Microsoft Bing is getting a new “Deep Search” feature powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. The feature is designed to give users more relevant and comprehensive answers to complex search queries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Research delving into a less visible component of Google’s search ads business — a network of third party sites called Google Search Partners (also known as the GSP network or SPN) — has documented scores of instances of Google search ads being served on non-Google websites that the media buyers paying for the marketing campaigns (..)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

TikTok is testing a new feature that integrates Google Search into its own in-app search results. The test, spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, shows a small box midway down TikTok’s search page that invites users to search for the same terms on Google.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

Local SEO How often have you searched stores or services near your location on Google Maps? Local SEO refers to an optimization strategy focused on getting your business to appear in the top three results on Google Maps when people search for solutions on the web. Including that landing page in your Google My Business profile.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

How to land the top spot in Google Search with featured snippets in 2021. “Google search is not what it used to be,” Ryan Sammy, the director of strategy at growth-marketing agency Fractl, writes in a guest post. 1 on the search results page, but these days, getting to that position isn’t enough. .”

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 26, 2024

’ [18:23] “RAG accelerated semantic search significantly. But when you consume the results of search, as a human, you can consume 10 blue links or 10 paragraphs or like one page of content. But when you consume the results of search, as a human, you can consume 10 blue links or 10 paragraphs or like one page of content.

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Derek Sivers

JUNE 29, 2023

People say they’re searching for their passion or purpose. But “purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working. When we’re engaged in the flow of fascinating work, we don’t think in these terms. The task at hand fills our mind. The task itself is what keeps us up all night, not some extracted story of purpose.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with gen AI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. But this new breed of search upstarts believes it can carve […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day. Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly workers over the past 18 months has now resulted in a competition for talent.

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