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TextDigger, Inc.

Product Name

Digger.com

Market Segment

Consumer

Funding

Series A: last year Funding from CNET Networks and private investors, $1.5 million. Currently raising Series B.

Competitors

Vivísimo, Kosmix, Powerset

Product Description

Digger revolutionizes the Internet search experience by inferring the probable meanings of a user’s query words while learning to judge meanings for future searches. Users can find documents that use different words to express the same idea, while avoiding those that use their words in a different sense. Digger digs deeper into the content on the Internet to produce only the most relevant results.

Market Opportunity

Global search revenue was estimated by Piper Jaffray at $14 billion for 2006, with expectations of $33 billion by 2010. Digger is poised to capture one of the most highly valued segments of this market: the users demanding more finesse with their searches, who tend be more educated, affluent and influential.

Demo Says

Wordplay makes for entertaining dinner conversation, but nuance and multiplicity of meaning make for a challenging search problem. TextDigger’s linguistic search disambiguates the meanings of words in a search query, applies synonyms and brings back relevant results. Gone are the days of guessing what word or phrase might constitute a more appropriate query; TextDigger does it for you. We think digger. com provides better results than straight text searches do. We also think TextDigger is smart to leverage the community to help build the underlying lexicon.