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Acquirer | Startup | Year | Snippet |
Undecidable Lab | 2016 | creates tools that can help turn an online search into an actual purchase | |
eBay | Corrigon | 2016 | searching and identifying specific objects within an image and matching that with other images or links to products. |
Ctrip | Skyscanner | 2016 | flight search engine |
Amazon | Graphiq | 2017 | pulls masses of data from the Web when it’s queried to produce answers in graph form and other visualizations Alexa |
Jelly | 2017 | tried to reimagine search as a social question-and-answer network. | |
Apple | Pop Up Archive | 2017 | podcast search |
Chan Zuckerberg | Meta | 2017 | AI technology that can read millions of scientific research papers as they are published, recognize authors and citations, and surface the most relevant and impactful discoveries; it also provides free full-text access to eighteen thousand journals and literature sources. |
Snapchat | Vurb | 2017 | download the app can create decks or collections of places they want to go and things they want to do and can share these decks with their friends from a list of contacts on other social media sites, such as Facebook |
Baidu | Raven Tech | 2017 | voice recognition assistant |
EdCast | Sociative | 2017 | Sociative has developed highly focused content discovery technology, using topical influencers, personalization and machine learning. |
Spotify | Niland | 2017 | music search and discovery engine |
Tenor | 2018 | Gif search | |
Samsung | Kngine | 2018 | AI search engine startup, fully dedicated to the idea of making an AI which learns and evolves just like a human does. It is supposed as an step towards improving the next version of its virtual assistant – Bixby 2.0 |
Trivago | TripHappy | 2018 | artificial intelligence to highlight relevant location and neighborhood information during the hotel search and discovery process |
Liquidity Services | Machinio | 2018 | heavy equipment vertical search engine |
Where is My Train | 2018 | The app’s ability to offer precise information about the arrival and departure of Indian trains is not a small achievement given that nearly 14,000 trains commute across different parts of India on daily basis. | |
Knotel | 42 Floors | 2018 | search engine for commercial real estate. |