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India’s answer to Google

CREATING A BUZZ IN SILICON VALLEY Siddharth Jonathan and Vijay Krishnan

Both companies were founded by Computer Science graduate students at Stanford University, both companies operate in the same domain of Internet search; what’s more both companies also share the same mentors.

Yes, the striking similarities between Infoaxe.com, the recently launched personal search engine and Internet super-power Google are many; there is one striking difference however, unlike the American / Russian origins of Google’s founders; both Infoaxe’s founders hail from India.

Founded by Siddharth Jonathan, engineering graduate of SVCE Chennai in 2005 and Vijay Krishnan, graduate of IIT Mumbai and student of SBOA, Infoaxe.com acts like a personal web-search engine archiving the personal web-usage of a user such that it throws up more accurate relevant results.

Jonathan tells us how it started: “While using the web for our own research, we were a little disappointed with the generic results a web search engine would throw up; early last year during our final year at Stanford, we embarked upon creating a search engine which would throw up results on the basis of a user’s web browsing history – the result was Infoaxe.”

When a user logs onto Infoaxe, he is prompted to download a toolbar which then keeps a track of the web-sites a user navigates through.

The searches are then mapped to the user’s browsing history. The site has already gained a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley with it securing investors of the ilk of Draper Fisher Juverston, Labrador Ventures, the same investors who’ve invested in companies such as Hotmail and Skype.

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