Archive for October, 2006

In my last blog post, I mentioned that based on feedback from you we’ve been working on improving the speed of Snap. In this post, I’ll start to talk about how we did it.
Using a complex project management scheme, we divided the work into three distinct phases:

- Phase 1: Prepare to do the […]

A great interview on the Searchviews blog w/ Tom McGovern our CEO. It gives a good summary of Snaps' mission, our views on visual search, CPA and user privacy…
Snap has gotten a lot of press thanks to a hefty round of VC funding in 2005 — including a feature in Time Magazine's "50 Coolest […]

Welcome to Snapshot, the weekly skinny on the hottest searches on Snap.com, the other way to Search.

Snapshot for October 13th, 2006
Clumsy injury good for your career? It would seem so, as web-interest in Eva Longoria rose as quickly as she fell after tripping on the steps of her trailer on the Desperate Housewives set. Thankfully, […]

PERFECT MARKET TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES
NEW CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER AND PRODUCT HEAD
Company continues to round out its rapidly growing executive team
PASADENA, CA – October 2, 2006 – Perfect Market Technologies, Inc., operator of Snap.com, today announced two additions to their senior management team – Michael Agostino, Chief Technology Officer and Jay Meydad, Vice President of Product. Mr. […]

Hi again, a look behind the scene of what the Snap technology teams have been working on. After we launched back in May, the feedback we received from you was pretty universal, “wow, that’s a really nice Web2.0 interface, the search results are good, previews are very helpful in evaluating my results. You […]

Well, it looks like the folks over at Wired Monkeybites (specifically Michael Calore) beat us to the punch on posting about this new feature. We just recently (last week) posted some updates to the Snap experience that greatly improved usability, convenience and general preview/site viewing for our search users.
Some of the updates (I will let […]