Lijit

Custom Search Startup Hits 1 Billion Monthly Pageviews

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 11, 2011 12:46 PM / View Comments

Lijit, a four year old Boulder startup that enables publishers to offer a single search box for all their content across multiple sites and advertisers to track website visitors' cross-site interests and in-network search activity, announced today that it now sees 1 billion monthly pageviews across the thousands of sites that use its technology. The company said that 20 million searches were performed with its technology last month.

Lijit is based on a beautiful idea: a search experience is created that includes selections of content across multiple different sites like your blog, your Tweets, your bookmarks and photos. It's not Web-wide though, it's all about the constraints. There's no reason why use of the service would be limited to your own content, it could be a collection of any topical, trusted sources. Tens of thousands of sites around the Web have implemented Lijit.

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SXSW Panel: Beyond Aggregation

By Phil Glockner / March 17, 2009 4:57 PM / View Comments

One of the more popular panels at SXSW Interactive this year was one called Beyond Aggregation. The panel included our very own Marshall Kirkpatrick, as well as Gabe Rivera (Techmeme), Louis Gray (LouisGray.com), Melanie Baker (PostRank) and Micah Baldwin (Lijit). The topics revolved around information gathering and management.

From the panel, Marshall and Louis had new sources and gathering tips, Gabe and Melanie weighed in heavily on how to manage information and Micah had some great suggestions on discovery of new information sources.

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Lijit Delivers Single Sign-In for Multiple Accounts

By Phil Glockner / March 5, 2009 5:20 PM / View Comments

The Lijit team rolled out today the ability to manage more than one widget with just one sign-in. Lijit is a combined search and statistics package for your blog rolled into a widget that's easy to install. Today's update has been a big request for a long time, according to their blog post.

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Lijit Closes $7.1 Million Series C Round - Readies Advertising Network

By Frederic Lardinois / August 12, 2008 11:13 AM

Lijit, which provides search services to bloggers and blog networks, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 Million series C round led by Foundry Group. Lijit had raised a small Series A round in January of 2007 and a larger $3.3 million Series B in July 2007. With this new round, Lijit is planning to use this new influx of money to finance the launch of its search-powered ad network.

Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 1, 2008 5:27 PM

"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It's not very useful or inspiring.

Communication works better when you have a good idea who it is you're talking to. How can new online services get users to describe themselves, though?

Lijit Acquires Comment Search Engine BigSwerve

By Josh Catone / January 28, 2008 12:51 PM

Personal search engine provider Lijit, which raised $3.3 million last July, will announced tomorrow that they have acquired BigSwerve for an undisclosed sum. BigSwerve, which was formed in 2006, has indexed more than 400 million comments from 3 million authors. Lijit plans to integrate the BigSwerve technology into their personal search engine product to learn more about the sphere of influence that publishers in their network have.