Semantifi-debuts-first-search-app-marketplace-for-the-deep-web-102834369. SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- DEMOfall 2010 -- Semantifi, Inc., a pioneer in Web Data Search, today publicly launched Semantifi.com, a Search App Marketplace that empowers internet users to publish and search structured data.
The Semantifi portal enables users to access the 'Deep Web,' which accounts for 99 percent of the information on the internet – but inaccessible to Google and Bing's general purpose keyword search engines. "The technology of leading search engines works fine for web pages, but not for structured data," said Shree Pragada, founder and CEO of Semantifi, Inc. "This is why using a keyword search engine to find 'digital cameras under $400' or 'earmarks of California Senators' or 'analyst ratings on Microsoft' produces thousands of search results, but does not deliver an appropriate answer.
" Semantifi.com hosts over 50 Search Apps which are focused search engines specific to datasets. Apps include SEC filings, Government Spending, U.S. About Semantifi. Semantifi Debuts First Search App Marketplace for the 'Deep Web' This site uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer.
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The competition seeks to identify and recognize promising start-ups in the Semantic Technology field. It consists of two rounds, the first of which is based on a popular vote where the top 15 contestants are chosen to move forward. During round two, an interdisciplinary panel of judges rated the finalists on their competitive and technological advantages, management team, commercial viability, utilization of semantic technology, and innovation. Semantifi is an open and free semantic search platform to search structured data on the Web. “The Semtech 2010 conference and start-up contest will greatly help us build awareness in the semantic web community,” Shree Pargada, Semantifi founder and CEO said. “ is a search platform where members of the community can build and share Search Apps, making any dataset searchable. The Innovate!
Innovate!100 - The World's Most Promising Tech Startups. DEMO: Semantifi crawls the deep, dark recesses of the Web for answers. Semantifi is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley.
After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective. Google and other popular search engines only search about 1 percent of the Web, according to research data from UC Berkeley. That just isn’t enough for deep-Web crawler Semantifi, which launched its new search engine at DEMO Fall 2010. Semantifi offers users a way to search for specific data through a search engine powered by user-created apps. Wolfram Research’s Wolfram Alpha, as well as some other data-powered search engines, also provide “answers” for searches on the Internet, such as a mathematical problem or what the national bird of Sweden is, but Semantifi offers users a chance to power the search with their own sets of data. The Stamford, Conn.