Collarity raising $7.8M to help sites learn about their users
Collarity, a company that helps monetize websites by monitoring user activity, is raising a second funding round of up to $7.8 million, VentureBeat has learned.
We wrote about the company back in 2006, when its emphasis was on a social search tool that allows site visitors to see what other visitors are interested in.
At the time, we noted that Collarity offers a interesting tool, but we also said the company faces some stiff competition from the… Continue Reading
Wikia to launch social search engine — amid a sea of others
Wikia, the San Mateo start-up founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, is working on a search engine that will use the same strategy as Wikipedia’s user-reliant encyclopedia.
The project is secretive, but has a preliminary launch date of the first quarter of 2007, the Times of London reports.
Wales says Google’s flaws have become more apparent:
Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try… Continue Reading
3DV, a depth dimension video camera co., raises $15M — maybe
Tel Aviv company Elron Electronic Industries said that its 3DV Systems unit has reached an agreement with Kleiner Perkins and Pitango Venture Capital for a $15 investment into 3DV.
It is just the latest move by local valley firm Kleiner Perkins to expand its focus outside of Silicon Valley.
Elron’s statement is here.
Elron owns 62 percent of 3DV, a company that says it has developed video camera technology that captures the depth dimension of objects in real… Continue Reading
The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity
Collarity is yet another Silicon Valley search engine start-up that wants to personalize your search results.
It does this by integrating things it knows about you — and from your surrounding community — garnered from past searches.
First, a warning: Too many search engines exist • and there will be some pain as most of them die a slow death. The list of ones we’ve written about in just the past few weeks goes on… Continue Reading