At the announcement of the joint venture in Beijing on Thursday, Zhou Xisheng, vice president of Xinhua, said the new company would build a leading search engine platform.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, the search engine platform centralizes all the classified ads and local marketplace apps.
It looks a whole lot like Tweetag, which does the same for searching Twitter, and also reminds me of Quintura, an alternative search engine platform that is centered around tag clouds for navigation.
Future partnerships are central to Mammoth's business, and the company aims to make its CRISPR-powered search engine the platform of choice for disease detection.
Specifically, OrangeSoda provides a search engine marketing platform designed to help small to medium sized businesses increase visibility locally through geo-targeted online marketing.
Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital.
Online ad campaign optimization startup Campanja, which has developed a search engine marketing platform aimed at maximizing customers' ad spend in real-time by adjusting for factors such as location, time, and seasonality, has beefed up its coffers — closing a $5 million Series A, led by Hoxton Ventures and DFJ Esprit.
Academia.edu, a social networking platform for academics that's looking to change the way scientific research is shared, just acquired Plasmyd, a search engine and discussion platform for research papers.
In researching this post I also talked to Ian Hogarth, co-founder and CEO of gig search engine and recommendation platform Songkick, who has a background in machine learning.
Paris, France-based Teleportd is a search engine and licensing platform for mobile photo services such as Instagram, Twitter, yFrog, Picplz, and others.
Essentially the TwitPic of video, TwitVid rolled out a Twitter video application for the iPhone and unveiled a realtime search engine and analytics platform last December.
