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Its a saturday and though there is no Startup Saturday happening in Mumbai today but that doesn’t stop us from covering an interesting bangalore based startup. The startup we are taking about is Snappyfingers.com
which is a Question and Answer search engine.

About SnappyFIngers
Snappyfingers crawls and indexes FAQs spread across the Internet, and provides search results in [...]

Well lots of attempts have been made including claims of making a search engine better than google. There have been startups like Powerset or Mahalo both of which use natural language or human powered search results as the ‘better than google’ factor to their advantage. But even after the hoopla about who will be the next google killer be none seem to have come even close to the search giant. A bunch of try the Bigger than Google route! Read on to know more..

     Here is a next generation online shopping engine focussed on Lifestyle segment. Thefind the website has been on platform for sometime now, the latest news is that they have got a funding of 15 million $’s from Bain Capital Ventures. Based in Mountain View,California, the venture also has backing of Red Point Ventures & [...]

PC World decided to find the best search engine  for various different types of searches.
In all, they tested 55 different services, across six categories: general (text info), video, mobile/local, news, images, and blogs.They used ten keywords in each category and this was done over a 3 week period.
While Google was overall the best solution, Yahoo-owned [...]

Web2Corp’s which recently invested in ByIndia.com, a search engine and social networking site, is now offering a $5 million dollar (USD) sweepstakes to new registrants to any of its properties. Starting on January 29th, 2007, Indian citizens living in India or the United Kingdom who sign up for a free account with ByIndia.com will receive [...]

Guruji.com the now famous local search engine which got a huge 7 Million $ as funding from Sequioa will bring regional language search in Hindi, Kannada and Telugu in the next couple of months. Also a search engine for cell phones will be brought to the market in three months. according to Anurag Dod, co-founder and CEO, Guruji.com. By [...]

After recently recieving a huge sum of 7 million dollars as funding from Sequoia Capital, Guruji.com the Indian search engine has announced a partnership with Infomedia India Ltd. This partnership will allow Guruji.com to use the business listings of Infomedia Yellow Pages as part of their city search. This tie up is expected to strengthen the [...]