Greplin: your personal search for all social services
From the incubator Y Combinator was another interesting startup: personal search engine Greplin. The idea is to index all personal information that you provide to social services: Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, LinkedIn, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Voice, etc. — and then provide the search according to your personal archive.
The system works very simply: specify the passwords for the services (use secure authentication OAuth and other APIs, so that system cannot see your password) — and after a few minutes of indexing you get for personal use ascetic search line in Google style.
It is a familiar idea for those who had used a desktop search engine that indexes all documents on the hard disk, including e-mail, IM logs and other personal information. Same here, but only online, because now, more personal information is stored online, not on your home PC. If a man is, so to say, rapid online life, often he doesn't remember what exactly the service publishes the particular personal information, address or phone number — so that the "single search box" for all social services is quite logical.
Greplin is positioned as a free service, which will charge money for additional features. Premium subscription supports searching inside the files (PDF, Word, etc.), allows you to increase the index size to 2 GB and to create an unlimited number of separate indices, including different accounts on Gmail or Twitter, and promises a more rapid upgrade of the database. Some services for indexing (e.g., Evernote) is also only available in the paid version. Costs $5 per month or $45 per year.
Michael Arrington writes that this project is based 18-year-old boy (who is now 19), he has lived his entire life in Israel and came to California last winter to his startup was accepted into the Y Combinator system.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
The system works very simply: specify the passwords for the services (use secure authentication OAuth and other APIs, so that system cannot see your password) — and after a few minutes of indexing you get for personal use ascetic search line in Google style.
It is a familiar idea for those who had used a desktop search engine that indexes all documents on the hard disk, including e-mail, IM logs and other personal information. Same here, but only online, because now, more personal information is stored online, not on your home PC. If a man is, so to say, rapid online life, often he doesn't remember what exactly the service publishes the particular personal information, address or phone number — so that the "single search box" for all social services is quite logical.
Greplin is positioned as a free service, which will charge money for additional features. Premium subscription supports searching inside the files (PDF, Word, etc.), allows you to increase the index size to 2 GB and to create an unlimited number of separate indices, including different accounts on Gmail or Twitter, and promises a more rapid upgrade of the database. Some services for indexing (e.g., Evernote) is also only available in the paid version. Costs $5 per month or $45 per year.
Michael Arrington writes that this project is based 18-year-old boy (who is now 19), he has lived his entire life in Israel and came to California last winter to his startup was accepted into the Y Combinator system.
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