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April 8, 2011 02:15 am GMT

Quixey Raises $400K From Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors For App Search

It's almost funny: between iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store, we've entered the age of the App, where standalone programs often specialize in doing a handful of things very well. There's an app for looking up baseball schedules, an app for finding the nearest gas station, and so on (you've seen the commercials). But despite the increasing ubiquity of these handy Apps, actually finding what you're looking for can be incredibly difficult, because search tends to be really, really bad across the most popular platforms.Enter Quixey. The startup, which is still in private beta, has been built from the ground up to specialize in app search. And instead of searching for an application's name (which is sort of difficult if you have no idea what to look for), Quixey lets you search by what you're trying to do. The company has raised a $400K seed round led by Innovation Endeavors " which is outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt's investment firm " with participation from Archimedes Ventures. Yep, Schmidt's firm is investing in a search engine.

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