Hakia tries to stay in search engine race, gets more funds
Hakia, another search engine company that is trying to understand “meaning” of your search terms, as a way of competing against Google, has raised $5 million more in capital from Prokom Investments, an existing investor.
The investment comes at a time when activity in new search engine approaches is robust. Just today, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales launched a new search engine, Search Wikia, that hopes to recruit people to edit its results. Mahalo is another people-based search… Continue Reading
Hakia raising $5M for semantic search
Semantic search outfit Hakia is on its way to launching in 2008, with a new $5 million round from an undisclosed investor.
The New York-based company opened for beta testing earlier this year, and has since been adding on services, including a recently-added option to “meet” others who perform the same searches (although people seem to mainly be using the feature for classified ads).
It also recently released a survey result showing that 17% of its beta… Continue Reading