Sunday, September 18, 2011

Snapsort raises $ 500 K to expand its product recommendation engine

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Snapsort, until today, the famous site of the popular camera recommendations was raised $ 500 K from undisclosed investors to extend its technology recommendations algorithmic product in other verticals, ranging from cars to Carsort.com and phones at Geekaphone.com.

Snapsort co-founder Christopher Reid compares technology for the actual Snapsort and Metaweb, but tells me that it is much cleaner than the former and richer than later. Snapsort.com, formerly in stealth mode, has more than 5 million monthly pageviews, with a time of 4 minutes average site and average 10% for us visitors according to Reid. His team in the year to build the show Reed and three persons.

Snapsort, Carsort and Geekaphone scrape data daily from sources, including retailers, manufacturers and final reviews. On the site Snapsort you can find products based on drill down criteria like price, model, and through a user-friendly interface.

"We are more like friendly knowledgable geek differentiation of trust for all your gadget tips, less like a list of products on the Web site of Best Buy, you can not freaking", Reed explained, referring to Snapsort in human friendly ambitions.

The company plans on being in 20 verticals by the end of the year and has its sights on dominating the recommendation products for electronics, entertainment, travel and education of children. "We want to provide advice on all issues," Reid said.


Snapsort recommendation of instant and personalized camera is not available anywhere else. Compare, review, round up and learn about cameras in one place, all the cameras in any way you want to look at. ..

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