Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smarter Search Engine

Posted by redm on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:56PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/27/swiftype-raises-7-5m-from-nea-to-develop-a-smarter-search-engine-for-web-and-mobile-sites/

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by heyadayo on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:37PM (#6460524)

This is one of those ideas that, in retrospect, seems incredibly good and shockingly obvious.

Seems like the challenge is at least 50% UI, and building a product that helps surface visitor intent really easily.

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by qhoxie on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:49PM (#6460556)

This is definitely true. We frequently talk about the real challenge in all of this being exposing the power that is under the hood while still keeping people productive and not letting them shoot themselves in the foot (while changing results).

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by zbruhnke on Friday September 27, 2013 @09:51PM (#6460561)

Congrats Quin, glad to see you guys rocking along! This is an example of a solid team building a great product and iterating well over and over again

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by 2pasc on Saturday September 28, 2013 @12:37AM (#6460955)

Is Swiftype suited for ecommerce? (i.e. product search)? Do you have something for mobile apps?

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by 100k on Saturday September 28, 2013 @12:44AM (#6460970)

Yes, we have a number of ecommerce customers. And we have mobile SDKs for iOS and Android and a mobile web-optimized search experience: https://swiftype.com/mobile

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by 2pasc on Saturday September 28, 2013 @09:51PM (#6463785)

But in that case, do you do product search or mostly FAQ/Help related search? Thx

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by 100k on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:13PM (#6478778)

We do both product search and support-related search.

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Re:Swiftype (YC W12) Raises $7.5M From NEA To Develop A Smar... by dm8 on Friday September 27, 2013 @10:59PM (#6460706)

I'm curious, how is it different from IndexTank (which was acquired by LinkedIn)?

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