Eurekster Swicki Blog

We're very happy to announce this morning that Eurekster has secured $5.5 million in a Series B round of funding. The financing was led by Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan.

As quoted in the press release, Steven Marder said, “Not only are we thrilled with global investors TVP and Transcosmos joining the Eurekster family but this transaction marks the next phase of accelerating our leadership in the social search and vertical search areas. With their support, we will more aggressively deliver on our vision for social search driving brand reinforcement, user engagement and improved targeting all to the benefit of web publishers, end users and advertisers."

We're excited as this new influx of cash supports our acceleration of further expansion (including global) and moving foward with a commercialization phase.

Check out our full press release for more details.

UPDATE: Edit Buzzcloud maintenance is now complete.

Some of you may have noticed a "Down for Maintenance" page when you tried to Edit your Buzzclouds.

We were performing some maintenance on the buzzcloud system which meant you couldn't edit your data. No data was lost and the page is now fully operational again.

Thank you for your patience!

Swicki Engineering Team

Over the weekend we had a strange bug on a couple of the servers in our search cluster.

The bug generated some unrelated search terms in various swickis. The unrelated terms included the user-agent string for the searchers browser (eg: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)").

Unfortunately owners of the affected swickis will have been notified of the bogus search activity in their swicki. We apologise for any confusion this may have caused.

Quite a few of you contacted us letting us know you noticed the problem and we thank for you that. We think we have fixed the issue and will be monitoring it closely for the next few days but as always would appreciate it if anyone notices it happening again.

Swicki Engineering Team

As you may have noticed we have been experimenting with advertising on swickis offering a range of alternatives. As part of this we are learning what is and is not working and as a result we are removing the Preferred Placement option for most swickis and refunding any money that advertisers have credited to their accounts. Watch out for more changes as we continue to experiment to work out the best way for your swickis to make money.