Swiftype

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Swiftype
Private
Industry Software
Information Technology
Search Engines
Genre Search and index
Founded San Francisco, California, U.S.A January 2012
Founders
  • Matt Riley, Quin Hoxie
Headquarters San Francisco, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Matt Riley (CEO), Quin Hoxie (CTO)
Services
Number of employees
25
Website Swiftype.com
Footnotes / references

Swiftype is a company that sells search engines for websites and mobile applications (also known as enterprise search) and creates a PageRank specific to individual websites and mobile applications.[1][2][3][4] The company is based in San Francisco, CA and is funded mainly through venture capital.[3]

History

Swiftype was founded in 2012 by former Scribd engineers Matt Riley and Quin Hoxie.[3] The two met while working on an internal search tool for Scribd.[1][2][5] Swiftype participated in Y Combinator in 2012 and received investment from a number of prominent sources.[4][6][7][8] In September 2013, the company obtained Series A funding.[3][4][6][7][8][9]

As of August 2013, Swiftype had over 70,000 websites using their search bar, powering over 130 million queries per month.[5][8]

Features

Swiftype is available as an API or web crawler based engine.[7] The company also offers a VIP-approved WordPress Plugin, a Shopify App, and a Magento extension.[10][11][12] Swiftype sells eCommerce search, enterprise search, faceted search, full text search, real-time search, concept search, and website search engines for websites and mobile applications.[3][4] The company's paid plans offer on-demand and live recrawls and indexing of websites.[8] Other features include drag and drop result customization[5][6][8] and real-time analytics.[1][5]

Competitors

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