Social search startup The Mechanical Zoo cages $6M

Social search startup The Mechanical Zoo cages $6M

The Mechanical Zoo, a social search startup founded by a team of former Google employees, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding.

Like many other companies, such as Delver and AskMeGo, The Mechanical Zoo says it’s trying to tailor web search results to personal tastes by tapping into a user’s “social graph”. What does that actually mean? As the company puts it, the service will help users “identify the right person, among the… Continue Reading