TextDigger mines $4.3M for semantic search tools
TextDigger, a San Jose, Calif. firm specializing in semantic search and text advertising, announced that it brought in $4.3 million in first-round funding from True Ventures, Intel Capital, CBS Interactive and a handful of angel investors. The money will be used to expand its sales and marketing presence.
The company claims its technology enhances web site findability through major search engines like Google by disambiguating the various meanings of words and by matching queries to relevant… Continue Reading
Semantic search startup TextDigger unearths a business model, and some venture funding
TextDigger, a semantic search startup that launched early last year at DEMO, has been much quieter in the interim than other companies in the space like Hakia, Powerset and Radar Networks / Twine. But now the company has come back to light, at least for us — a filing document reveals that the company has finally landed venture funding, raising $3.8 million so far.
A year or two ago, it wasn’t uncommon to hear the term… Continue Reading
TextDigger, Hakia say they can improve search
TextDigger is the latest company seeking that Holy Grail: Improving on Google’s results by understanding the sense of the words you’re looking for.
TextDigger’s search engine is called Digger, and it just launched at the DEMO conference.
First, some context: Digger, of San Jose, joins Powerset, the San Francisco start-up, and Hakia, of New York, and others which are trying to do something similar. Our piece on Powerset sparked debate within the search industry, namely because some… Continue Reading