About the company

Location: 2271 Lake Ave # 6332 , Altadena, California 91003-6332, United States flags/United States.gif
Founded in: 2006
Stage: Profitable
Number of employees: 1-5
Profitable year: already profitable
Short URL: http://vator.tv/c/1236
Profile creation: October 20, 2009
Last updated: July 30, 2010

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Whozat, Inc.

Whozat The People Search Engine
Startup/business
flags/United States.gif California, United States
http://www.whozat.com

Whozat is the only people search engine to have beat Google and every other search engine tested 3 to 1 in a third-party blind comparison of the relevance of people search results.

 

Whozat finds social network profiles, photos, videos, web results, email addresses and much more.

 

Whozat is the pioneer of interactive search, letting you refine your search results in real-time based on whether you find any result relevant or not.

 

Whozat is a truly semantic search engine, understanding the meaning of your queries and of the results.

 

Whozat's proprietary algorithms search deeper and find the most relevant results, saving you lots of time browsing through results pages.

 

Whozat boasts machine vision, too.

 

Try it out today at whozat.com . Then try our advanced resume-based search at SocialDiligence.com .

 

 

Latest updates

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Alex Backer (CEO)
Thanks to the distinguished judges for naming me one of 40 under 40 at their televised awards gala at the site of the original Oscars Monday! The best part was meeting the other 39 and the judges and sponsors. about 15 hours ago
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Alex Backer (CEO)
ab|inventio, our parent company, named most Innovative Company of the Year in North America Distinguished Honoree by the International Business Awards, alongside Salesforce.com and a few others. on July 18
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Alex Backer (CEO)
Off to Orlando, then Boston over the weekend to speak at the H+ conference at Harvard, through Monday. Then off to NY the following Monday for the ABA awards banquet and to Philadelphia the following day. Let me know if you are there and want to meet. on June 09
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Alex Backer (CEO)
SocialDiligence.com traffic continues to grow rapidly, and is projected to approach half a million unique visitors per month this month, up 60% already from April, which was itself up 44% over the month before. on May 13
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Alex Backer (CEO)
Whozat, Inc. signed agreements with Classmates and Ancestry.com. on April 24
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Business model

Whozat boasts a proprietary API and powers social search for some of the largest people-related websites in the world. We also own and operate two web properties, whozat.com, which is ad-supported, and SocialDiligence.com, which offers subscriptions and offers advanced search.
 

Management Bio

 

IP and defensibility

Multiple patents pending and Proprietary algorithms.
 

Looking for employees

Employee description

Looking for a great results-driven sales and biz dev person.
 

Feedback and testimonials

  • Alex Backer November 17, 2009
    “Try whozat.com. I learned things about myself I didn’t know. Seriously. And now I’m checking on you.”
    --Prof. Harry Lewis of Blown to Bits. Prof. Lewis holds an endowed chair in CS at Harvard and was Dean of the College for 8 years. http://blog.abinventio.com/2008/05/09/scary-neat-search-tool-of-the-day -raves-blogger-about-whozat/
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