Xoost – share your search skills with your friends

Posted on April 23, 2008
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What is this startup about?

Do you Search the Web for your favourite topics and you would like to share your search skills with your friends? Xoost is the only place for you. With Xoost you will web search what you like most, your search stream will be continuously added to your profile, and you will socialize with other Xoosters on the basis of common search interests. Your searches and related websites will be automatically stored in your account and you will be able to access them anytime. In addition, you can share your Xoost searches with your friends on other networks such as Facebook or Twitter and you can tag or delete any search and related website as you like most. Xoost is simple, viral, scalable, enjoyable and is currently in private beta test: join the beta if you like the concept.

What makes this startup special?

Xoost shows you a new way of searching the web. With Xoost you will search what you like, you will connect with other Xoosters who are searching the same thing and you will contribute to the search relevance optimization for everybody. According to the traditional web search concept a Weblink is a piece of knowledge. In Xoost’s view a connection is the basic piece of knowledge and it is made by the unique combination of User+Search+Weblink. A Xoost connection is a much more powerful knowledge unit because it contains a relevant semantic factor. That makes Xoost unique.

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