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Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures

in Media on March 12, 2010 at 1:40 pm PT

The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor.

Hunch's Fake and Dixon Speak (And They've Got a Hunch, You Might Not Get Exactly What It Is Yet)

in News on February 18, 2010 at 10:42 am PT

When Aardvark was sold to Google for $50 million last week, a lot of folks wondered about the fate of Hunch, another hot start-up in the space. Except, as correctly noted by two of its four co-founders, Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon, in a chat BoomTown had yesterday, Hunch is quite different–more of an algorithmically hopped up recommendation service that makes use of a mass of data from user-generated questions and answers than a simple social search service. Here’s an interview with Fake and Dixon on the progress made so far to figure out the fate of the year-old start-up.

Safety Dance

in The Mossberg Report on November 14, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

You can’t turn around without reading scary stories about the dangers of the Internet — spyware, adware, viruses, spam. But the biggest trend to worry about is the combining of these nefarious tools for criminal purposes. Spam email used to be annoying; now it may lead you to phony web sites set up by identity [...]

Two New Services Try to Warn You About Sleazy Sites

in Personal Technology on June 22, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Two new services aim to provide advance notice of bad or offensive sites, letting you know if sites in Web search results are harboring things like malicious software or pornography.