At the Venture Summit East conference in downtown Boston yesterday, CEOs of various tech start-ups gave five-minute spiels to peak the interest of venture capitalists. The consumer and media panel hosted several interesting companies, most of which focused on improving the Internet experience for the user and aggregating content more efficiently.
Mark Moran, the CEO of Dulcinea Media of New York, presented a Web search engine the company launched last year. The engine’s findings are based on editorially reviewed content and links. Taglined “the Librarian of the Internet,” findingDulcinea.com is a good idea in theory. According to Moran, users are inundated with information and often don’t get what they’re really looking for. “Internet search engines are powered by math-based algorithms–ones that lack the judgment and adaptability of the human mind,” he says.
Unlike Wikipedia, the content on the site is entirely managed and written by the team, which links to sites it finds useful. The website’s target is largely folks (824 million) who use the Web but are not familiar with social-networking sites. In particular, it focuses on the older demographic that is still learning to navigate the Web, and offers friendly guides (how to search the Web, how to find an apartment in New York, etc.).
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