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| Feb 9, 2012 | Fabled Google Drive Won’t Be Another Dropbox | The Wall Street Journal has revived rumors about Google launching a cloud storage service called Drive. The comparison everybody wants to make is to Dropbox. The thinking is that Google will challenge everyone’s favorite start-up by releasi... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Greplin Users Have Uploaded 6 Billion Files — And Now They Have In-File Search | Between your Google account(s), Facebook, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and whatever other services you’re hooked up to, there’s a good chance that a lot of the information you need on a daily basis isn’t stored in one place. Maybe it’s the address... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | Google Brings Automatic, Background Visual Search to Android Phones | Terminator references to computer vision tend to be overblown as most augmented reality apps don’t really analyze what’s literally in front of them – except for Google Goggles. How often do you remember to use Google’s crazy visual search a... |
| Sep 10, 2011 | The Fragmented Mobile Information Race | Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Greplin Releases Must Have iPhone App To Organize Your Life And Avoid Rabid Googlers | It was only a year ago that I first wrote about Greplin, the “other half of search” for you online life. It’s an incredibly useful search engine that indexes your online email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Calendar, Dropbox and other stuff ... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | YC NYC Meetup, September 26 | Have you ever considered joining a startup? Or starting your own?
Or both? If so we’d love to have you at Y Combinator’s first NYC
meetup, this September 26. We’ll have both YC partners and founders
of companies we’ve funded on hand to a... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Greplin Wants You To Redesign Wikipedia Search | Personal search engine Greplin is announcing the launch of its Wikipedia Search Design Contest today, with the ultimate objective of conceptualizing a better way to search Wikipedia .
Greplin founder Daniel Gross tells me that Wikipedia sea... |
| Apr 27, 2011 | Greplin: 1.5 Billion Documents Indexed, Six Engineers | Late last year we first mentioned Y Combinator startup Greplin – it’s a startup that indexes your social stuff in the cloud, making all your Facebook, Gmail. LinkedIn, Google Calendar, Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox and just about everything el... |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Greplin's Chrome Extension Now Makes Gmail Search Infinitely Better | Gmail is arguably the best web-based email client out there, but it’s far from perfect. Just navigating your inbox (particularly when it’s a big one) can be an exercise in frustration… and then there’s Gmail Search, which is just painful. W... |
| Mar 11, 2011 | Search Your Cloud From Your Browser: Greplin Adds a Chrome Extension | It’s been an active 2011 for Greplin. In February, we covered the social search service’s public launch and, mere days later, wrote about its closing a $4 million venture round backed by Sequoia.
Since then, Greplin has been rapidly expandi... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Google Search Finally Going Fully Social With Shared Twitter Links And Even Quora Data | At least a couple times a week we get tipped about Google testing a new “social search” feature. The truth is that the “social circle” results that everyone is pointing to have been in place since 2009. But Google clearly didn’t think too m... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Greplin's Social Search Opens Its Doors To All | Greplin, the service that indexes and lets you search all of your online social stuff (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), has just opened its doors to everyone. Earlier this week we reported on their new financing round from Sequoia Capital, ... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Greplin (W10) Grabs $4 Million From Sequoia For Social Search | Read article via techcrunch.com |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Greplin Grabs $4 Million From Sequoia For Social Search | This is timely given all the hand wringing this weekend over search innovation. Greplin, a search startup that we first covered last year, has raised a $4 million venture round from Sequoia Capital. Sequoia partner Greg McAdoo has also join... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| Jan 9, 2011 | Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010 | Daniel Raffel is a former Yahoo product manager and a newbie entrepreneur. A year ago we asked him to write a guest post telling us about his favorite new products, projects and features of 2009. The post below is an updated list of his fav... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Ron Conway's Crystal Ball: 12 Startups On The Cusp | Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, esteemed angel investor Ron Conway took the stage to give attendees a quick taste of the innovation that’s currently going on in Silicon Valley (and NYC’s Silicon Alley, which Conway specifically mentioned). To ... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Introspectr Searches Your Social Streams | We are inundated with so many social streams that it is easy to forget where exactly we read something. For instance, there was a story earlier today on Twitter showing better clickthrough rates than Facebook. I know I saw it somewhere, but... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Email Finally Emerges as a Platform: 3 Must-Have Plug-ins & What They Mean | Email is old fashioned, right? Not so fast – that rich source of data about your personal connections and interests is finally emerging as a platform for some really innovative services.
Yesterday we saw the launch of Gmail’s new Priority I... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life | There’s always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It’s a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud. If you’ve used desktop search like spotlight, you’ll... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Y Combinator and Facebook teaming up | Product, technical and design support for social based start up companies
Facebook is teaming up with venture capital firm, Y Combinator, to encourage the creation of social-media-based startups.
Startups that participate in the joint progr... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | Startups And Top Investors Unite At Y Combinator's Tenth Demo Day | I’m here at Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View, California, where over two dozen startups are showing off their wares to a room full of investors and press. The room is packed with with some of Silicon Valley’s most highly regarded ... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | Y Combinator presents 26 new startups | Startup incubator Y Combinator is hosting its semi-annual Demo Day today. Twice a year, the Mountain View, Calif.-based incubator parades its latest batch of companies onstage to present before potential investors.
This afternoon, 26 compan... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | Greplin shines a spotlight through the cloud | One of the most useful features of Mac OS is Spotlight—hit “command-space bar,” then type a term into the search field and Apple quickly skims through everything on your hard drive. As more data moves to disparate places online, however, mo... |