Vijay Ramachandran (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} vijayr) wrote,@ 2008-11-20 17:23:00 |
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Going live
I quit my last job at Yahoo more than a year ago to follow my dream of starting my own hi tech software company. I thought that it would be easy. I thought that it would be fun. I thought that I'd have world singing my praises. I thought that - actually, I don't know WTF I was thinking!!! :)
I did want to build a product which would push the existing boundaries in some area, something which would help a lot of people, and something that I'd be proud of. Along the way, I even convinced an equally crazy dude to drop his comfortable life and jump in.
After a year and a half of slogging, we are very proud to present WisdomTap product search and the
WisdomRank Conversion Engine. "Say what??", did you say? If you cut through the attempt at marketing speak, the product search is a search engine which has crawled the best communities on the web - like DP Review and POTN, analyzed this to find who the expert contributers are and which products they like, and present this using a search interface. You can use product search to find which is the best product for your particular need. You can search based on what you want to use the product for - say, to find a lens for wildlife photography. Or, you can search by product search, for instance, a wide angle lens. You can even research a particular product.
Everybody researches what to buy on the web these days - we're helping them find the best product for their needs based on the wisdom of the experts in the web's best communities. We believe that we're on the way to opening up a very large portion of the web - discussion forums and other web communities - to the wider web audience. While we've fine tuned our algorithms on the digital camera domain, we're in the process of rolling out this search for a whole slew of products.
Besides helping the web user decide what to buy based on the opinions of the best web communities, we are also providing this as a service for e-commerce retailers to provide this decision making data on their site. We help convert confused browsers into decisive buyers who know exactly what they want to buy!
Do try out the product search for finding your next digital camera related equipment, and give a shout out to your friends if you like it. If you feel strongly about a camera or lens that you own, get a badge for it to show on your site. And, of course, send me your feedback!
Last but not least - thanks to all my innumerable supporters along the way. If I have seen so far, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
I quit my last job at Yahoo more than a year ago to follow my dream of starting my own hi tech software company. I thought that it would be easy. I thought that it would be fun. I thought that I'd have world singing my praises. I thought that - actually, I don't know WTF I was thinking!!! :)
I did want to build a product which would push the existing boundaries in some area, something which would help a lot of people, and something that I'd be proud of. Along the way, I even convinced an equally crazy dude to drop his comfortable life and jump in.
After a year and a half of slogging, we are very proud to present WisdomTap product search and the
WisdomRank Conversion Engine. "Say what??", did you say? If you cut through the attempt at marketing speak, the product search is a search engine which has crawled the best communities on the web - like DP Review and POTN, analyzed this to find who the expert contributers are and which products they like, and present this using a search interface. You can use product search to find which is the best product for your particular need. You can search based on what you want to use the product for - say, to find a lens for wildlife photography. Or, you can search by product search, for instance, a wide angle lens. You can even research a particular product.Everybody researches what to buy on the web these days - we're helping them find the best product for their needs based on the wisdom of the experts in the web's best communities. We believe that we're on the way to opening up a very large portion of the web - discussion forums and other web communities - to the wider web audience. While we've fine tuned our algorithms on the digital camera domain, we're in the process of rolling out this search for a whole slew of products.
Besides helping the web user decide what to buy based on the opinions of the best web communities, we are also providing this as a service for e-commerce retailers to provide this decision making data on their site. We help convert confused browsers into decisive buyers who know exactly what they want to buy!
Do try out the product search for finding your next digital camera related equipment, and give a shout out to your friends if you like it. If you feel strongly about a camera or lens that you own, get a badge for it to show on your site. And, of course, send me your feedback!
Last but not least - thanks to all my innumerable supporters along the way. If I have seen so far, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
