Eurekster, Inc.
Eurekster, Inc. (www.eurekster.com) is a pioneer and leader in social search technologies. Its custom search portal and widget ("swicki") harness the knowledge, passion and behavior of online communities to improve the search experience, while creating online assets for web publishers and infopreneurs.
Users can build and customize their search portal on any topic, and share and distribute the social search widget to grow a community of interested users. With every search, the swicki becomes more relevant and meaningful to the user community, and more valuable to the swicki builder.
Eurekster has global reach in over 15 countries and is Asian Language enabled. Customers include branded sites, social networks, top blogs and blog platforms.
Eurekster was founded in 2004 by a core team including digital media and search technology veterans Steven Marder, who is CEO and Grant Ryan, who is Chief Scientist. Eurekster is privately held and venture backed. Investors include Technology Venture Partners (TVP), Transcosmos, Tapit Partners and various angels.
Eurekster is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with Research & Development located in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Improving the power of web search
As the web grows and evolves, web search needs to grow and evolve too. Swicki technology improves on existing general web search by enabling vertical, community site and web searches to be initiated from any website. A swicki's strength is in its community appeal and dynamic buzzcloud®. As such, collaboration between groups of people with similar interests using a swicki will quickly produce much more relevant, tailored results for that group than a generic search engine
Eurekster's patented swicki technology enhances the web search experience by combining host and consumer customization with user collaboration. Learn more about the swicki search solution.
Awards
"The 'genius' of Eurekster is that it's passive, meaning the engine serves up progressively more relevant results (than general Web search) on the basis of communal search behavior - without any effort on the part of users."
Greg Sterling - Search Engine Journal