J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970, in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and founder of TechCrunch, covering startups and technology news blog. Arrington attended from Claremont McKenna College (Bachelor of Economics, 1992 year) and Stanford Faculty (JD, 1995) and practiced as a lawyer in corporate and securities at the two law firms: & he rejoined O'Melveny Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich ... ? Read More
It was only a year ago that I first wrote about Greplin, "the other half of searches for your online life. This is an incredibly useful search engine that indexes your Internet email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, calendar, Dropbox and other stuff (22 services currently supported). Greplin is a single search box on all this, and it's fast.
So far, though, you had to use HTML5 website for mobile use, there is no selected application. If you are a iPhone user, this is now changed. Android and other users will have to wait a little longer.
Why the need for dedicated application? 20 yr old CEO Daniel gross says that they need in their application to add the most requested features. Aim is to reduce typing foresee that you need – if you open the application towards meeting Greplin you can use your location and the date and time to make an intelligent guess you want to address or phone number related to this meeting and then give it to you.
Intellectual accumen Greplin iPhone app is impressive. When Gross was OK in my Office yesterday, "Arrington" was top to search. App knew he was following a meeting with me for his calendar and e-mail messages and knew that are unlikely to search for me. After clicking on my name was further refinements to find phone number or my place, etc.
You could do all that in an email or calendar, in one way or another, but Greplin makes it a lot easier. Instead of opening the e-mail on my phone and looking for the name of the person I'm meeting and then scrolling through an email or two find a phone number or address (and probably getting punished, rabid Googler to type while driving) Greplin just seems to know what I want and put front and Center-per-click advertising. It then outlines the relevant information from the letter a.
It is these two functions – proposed searches and illumination – that make application is so easy to use. It's rare that a new application can receive the coveted "must have" spot on my phone, but Greplin is clear. Once he is on Android, i.e.
Gross original idea for the Greplin derives from the idea that "people with more and more information thrown at them and we are here to make this manageable." Greplin already does this. Greplin in the iPhone app makes it even better. And if he saves the life of even one crazy Googler, which passes in front of your car, it's worth it.
Greplin was slightly less than 5 million dollars from investors, Sequoia Capital, SK Telecom Ventures and Angel.
Greplin, launched in September 2010, is the personal Web search engine which indexes data stored in online services.
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