Eurekster
Eurekster was a New Zealand–based company that built social search engines for use on websites, which were referred to as "swickis" (for "search plus wiki"[1]). The company was based in Christchurch, with an office in San Francisco, California. It was co-founded by Grant Ryan and Steven Marder, who served as its chief scientist and CEO, respectively. Ryan is also the co-founder and chairman of the Christchurch-based company SLI Systems, which specializes in search engines that learn from users.[2] According to Marder, "Eurekster pioneered vertical, social search..."[3]
Eurekster launched to the public on 21 January 2004.[4]
In 2007, Eurekster hosted around 100,000 swickis[3] for various websites, which total approximately 20 million searches per month,[5] or around 800,000 searches per day.[6]
The company shut down sometime after 2010.[citation needed]