Press
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"HeyStaks is "social search" brought to iOS and Android. It is not dissimilar from the approach that Microsoft is taking with Bing and Facebook integration but the HeyStaks community is the one that powers the social aspects of search."
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"The company was chosen as the overall winner of the Irish leg of [Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011] after it edged ahead of the four other finalists, which all pitched their mobile products to a judging panel."
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"HeyStaks will now represent Ireland in the finals [of Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011], which includes the winners from the six other participating countries, at the PICNIC festival in Amsterdam"
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"If Google Was The Sports Car Of Search Engines When It Launched, It's Now A Rather Rusty Vintage Sport Car. Enter Heystaks, A New Startup Launching Today Which Wants To Make Search More Efficient By Making It Social."
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"HEYSTAKS TECHNOLOGIES, a social web search start-up, has secured €1 million in equity funding from the Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund, managed by NCB Ventures. The company will use the investment to create 10 new jobs over the next year, develop its product further and open a US office."
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"HeyStaks allows you to collaborate anonymously with friends and people of like-minded interest as you search, to get better, more relevant results recommended by people you trust around topics that matter to you."
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"Heystaks, a new search startup, hopes to be a part of the evolution by making search social - and not simply by searching social data, like Tweets and photos, as others have done, but by using your social community to drive better results."
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"We in the search industry know that users have been wanting a more social experience for a while but no one has delivered. Now is exactly the right time for a solution like HeyStaks, which is meta and works across the search engines and social networks."
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"[...] if you look at the amount of searching that gets done, it seems reasonable that a startup like HeyStaks might slice off a piece of the market. Search is still a time-consuming and often frustrating business, especially if you are searching for information on a more esoteric or specialized subject. [...] Results to date suggest that HeyStaks recommendations can be up to 50 percent more relevant that the vanilla search engine results."