By: My Pitch Log Mashup, Vol. 9 | Social Media Explorer

My Pitch Log Mashup, Vol. 9 | Social Media Explorer — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:38:58 +0000

[...] Innovation in search these days is generally limited to Google and some other guy down the hall at Google. The main reason is that if you’re a start-up trying to take on Google, Yahoo or Bing/MSN, well … you’re nuts. Sundar Kadayam, then, by definition, is nuts. But he might just be the right nut to do it. Zakta.com is a new search engine that offers not just keyword-rich results, but those with social relevance. It allows you to edit your search results, save them for later, share results with other users, see their culled results if they’ve shared them and more. Kadayam is calling it a personal search engine. It’s the closest thing to the next big thing in search I’ve seen. Kadayam isn’t a new face on the scene, either. He’s the former founder and CTO at Intelliseek and was also with Nielsen Buzzmetrics. If you take anything away from this post, go to Zakta.com and give it a test spin. You can learn more about why it’s different on the Zakta blog. [...]

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