Quixey Raises $400K From Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors For App Search
Summary
But despite the increasing ubiquity of these handy Apps, actually finding what you’re looking for can be incredibly difficult, because search tends to be really, really bad across the most popular platforms. The company has raised a $400K seed round led by Innovation Endeavors — which is outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s investment firm — with participation from Archimedes Ventures. Quixey’s search engine lets you type in a query, like “Crop photos”, and get a list of applications that should fit the bill — which you can filter by platform. Quixey draws from a variety of sources as it attempts to determine what each application can be used for, including blog posts that have been written about the app, user reviews, and more. The service is still in private beta so it’s a bit early to judge it on accuracy, but I ran a few test queries and the results showed promise.