Archive for August, 2006

One of the most common requests we've received from Users since we launched the new version of Snap in May is to lose our "custom scrollbar" in the left results pane, and replace it with your browser's "native scrollbar." While the custom scrollbar was required to allow you to scroll through the results pane with […]

As part of the WB11 New York Morning News segment on TIME Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites, Time Magazine Editor Amber Cartwright quoted that Snap was "The Hottest New Search Engine" of 2006… We have a clip from that interview…

Snap is featured as a 'DO' in the The Weekend Guide EVERYWHERE Edition of Daily Candy (for Aug 24th 2006). So now you have to get your Daily Snap huh?
DO
Snap.com
What: The broadband search engine is super resourceful and produces stellar results (once you get used to it).
Why: Come on, get snappy.
Where: Online at snap.com.
View: Daily […]

Thanks to editor David E. Gumpert, who wrote a recent article in the Business Week blog talking about the Snap 'Other Way to Launch' contest and its viral popularity… He also mentioned that he has started using Snap as a result…
The promo has encouraged me to use snap.com and I've found it has features […]

Hi, in my last blog post (now almost three weeks ago) I introduced myself as the new CTO for Snap. I have been so busy that I am just now able to continue my posting. Here’s more on what I did in my first week.
In a startup you need to hit the road […]

SNAP.COM CHOSEN AS ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S
50 COOLEST WEBSITES OF 2006
Snap.com’s Visual Search Results Make it a “Must-Click” Website
PASADENA, CA – August 14, 2006 – Perfect Market Technologies, Inc. today announced that Snap.com has been selected by TIME magazine as a must-click website for its annual survey of the 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. The […]

Snap is featured in TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites of 2006 list this AM! This is a great win for us! We are all very excited here and truely appreciate TIME recognizing the innovation and thought put into our search experience!
According to TIME, this year's choices are shining examples of next-generation sites offering dynamic new […]

Recently John Battelle polled his own Searchblog readers about who they wanted to see him interview next. You guessed it, the highest vote getter was Bill Gross(!) Now thats pretty cool… You can read the transcript of the email interview here Interview: Bill Gross. They even talk about Snap.com in the article, as if! […]

We were pleasantly greeted this morning with Paul Bruemmer (of Red Door Interactive)'s post on iMediaConnection.com titled "Snap.com: Even Better than Google?" Paul makes many good points and highlights many of Snap's core features, including Visual Search, user behavioral data to assist in ranking results, co-mingled algo and sponsored results, our rapidly growing in-house index, […]

Snap has recently worked out a partnership with Popurls (a very cool RSS media buzz feed aggregator) to power the web searches off of the site. Its live now! Many Snap folks use them as their homepage. Now not only can you read what's going on RIGHT NOW anywhere online, but you can search on […]