The ab|inventio Gazette

What a pleasure it is to build something for people and have people take the time to acknowledge our work. Read Doug’s testimonial below:

I’m impressed by the thoroughness of your search engine, and by it’s ability to cull irrelevant links. I found several referees to myself that I had never found through Google or and of the other search engines.

–Doug Collins, Hermosa Beach, California

Thanks, Doug! We are also getting a great deal of suggestions from users, and will be working on incorporating them in the future. Keep them coming!

Happy Independence Day!

Alex

“It’s called Whozat and after a half-hours worth of messing about, I’d found out more about old friends and exes than I ever have on Google. It’s also weird to see that as soon as you type in my name, not even using my middle name, photos of me instantly appear, as well as my Facebook page, etc.

I’m always aware that as a journalist and blogger I leave a huge web trail in my wake, but seriously, this is crazy. I even found out information on people who have been pretty much living off the grid for years”.

–Theresa Hogue, writing for http://www.gazettetimes.com/

A new survey shows that more than 90% of restaurant guests surveyed said they prefer a QLess restaurant than one w/o QLess, and that they’d wait longer for a table if QLess was available. Something that was borne out by the fact that guests waited up to 3.17 hours to get a table using QLess (and actually sat to eat after that). In fact, the revenues from people who wait more than 45 minutes alone give a highly positive ROI for the cost of QLess –making the extra customer satisfaction for every guest a free bonus.

I am proud to announce that Alex Cory has agreed to join Whozat’s Board of Directors. Alex brings a wealth of relevant experience.

Responsible for creating new search and online marketing services at Overture, Mr. Cory fused paid search with search for the first time, creating the paradigm that today fuels most of the revenue for Google & Yahoo, acquiring AltaVista, Alltheweb, and Keylime Software among others and integrating them into Overture prior to Overture’s acquisition by Yahoo!.

More recently, Mr. Cory joined Global Conference Partners as CEO in August 2006 and brings 20 years of general management, strategy development, consulting, and new business development experience in enterprise software, internet search, online marketing services and other industries.

Mr. Cory came to GCP from Neven Vision immediately following its acquisition by Google. As the CEO of Neven Vision, Mr. Cory leveraged facial and image recognition technology to build a direct response advertising platform for mobile handsets and developed active campaigns in Europe, North America, and Asia. Over the prior two years, Mr. Cory worked in board and senior advisory roles with several early stage businesses, including Stochasto (operating as NearU Search in the U.S.), a European-based mobile natural language search company and various online marketing services ventures.

In 2001, Mr. Cory served as CEO of Quivox Systems, a startup ASP software business. Prior to that, Mr. Cory spent 7 years in general management, strategy, and new business development roles at Cargill in their food, manufacturing, and life sciences businesses. Mr. Cory started his career as an economist in the U.S. government before spending 7 years as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company.

Mr. Cory has a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Pomona College. Mr. Cory lives in South Pasadena, California, where he enjoys spending time with his two children.

–Alex

Dana_Gardner wrote:  Just tried Whozat? people search. Good results, better than ZoomInfo, Google on just bio/background stuff … http://whozat.com/search/

Whozat is a semantic search engine for people finding that allows you to find information on everyday people that you wouldn’t necessarily find with other engines… Searches are ranked according to the relevance of your query making it much more successful at providing information about ordinary people…Why it might be a killer: Being able to find accurate information about regular people is still difficult to do on the web. Whozat seems to be tackling this problem and it could become a key referencing tool in the future.

Read for yourself at http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/whozat-com-semantic-people-search-engine

Our latest testimonial:

“I am impressed with both the depth and quality of information.”

-James F. Ford

Thanks, James!