News

no news is good news

Grapeshot has been busy developing, testing and licensing its technology to a few select customers.

It has not yet appointed PR consultants or focused on creating news.

A short summary of milestones is listed below. Some items are withheld due to Non-Disclosure Agreements in place with customers.

January 2008

Customers reporting high click through rates...and requesting multiple roll outs.

September 2007

Several publishers deploy Grapeshot DNA inside their websites.

July 2007

Grapeshot launches new Grapeshot DNA web service.

June 2007

Grapeshot contributes to IBM's Global Innovation Outlook programme on Media & Content

July 2006

Grapeshot moves to new offices.

June 2006

Grapeshot pioneers contextual Epicentre Crawling with Arabic, Chinese, and other European languages for UK customer.

May 2006

Grapeshot's first US customer goes live – achieving 65 Grapeshot transactions (searches) per second on a single Java thread.

April 2006

Grapeshot and IBM exhibit at NEXPO, Chicago demonstrating Grapeshot code as personalisation layer within IBM Websphere to major publishing groups.

April 2006

Grapeshot signs Teaming Agreement with IBM.

March 2006

Grapeshot auto-categorises news for the Press Association in a small technology evaluation. It outperforms all other vendors on a like-for-like category basis.

February 2006

Grapeshot goes into production with large US customer.

January 2006

Grapeshot invests in makeover of grapeFX demonstration into Dooodle news & blog search service – using Moreover Technologies news feeds

December 2006

Grapeshot signs first US customer – large $1.5 billion revenue internet company (BigCo under NDA).

November 2005

Grapeshot v1.4 released

October 2005

Grapeshot exhibits with IBM and Atex at IFRA 2005 in Leipzig to demonstrate personalised news delivery as part of portal strategy.

September 2005

UK independent systems integrator completes evaluation of Grapeshot compared to Lucene and other industry standard search systems. Feedback is that Grapeshot is "market leading" in technology capability.

July 2005

Grapeshot exploring OEM strategies via early-stage companies focused on personalised news and advertising arbitrage.

June 2005

Grapeshot 1.0 released

February 2005

Search veteran Jim Pitkow meets with Grapeshot co-founder, John Snyder, to debate monetisation strategies, or quick M&A route to exploitation. Grapeshot directors decide to build a business (with Muscat experience and proceeds of trade sale behind them).

January 2005

Grapeshot demonstrated using the C++ grapeFX application to Google’s Head of Search Quality. Google is the first company to ever see Grapeshot working.

November 2004

Google’s Head of Open Source, Chris Di Bona, makes contact with Grapeshot founder to seek permission to use language stemming algorithms under GPL licence.

August 2004

Grapeshot SDK in v0.9 release. Start of first C++ application development using Grapeshot as core search component.

August 2002

Grapeshot incorporated as a limited company by guarantee.

February 2001

Grapeshot co-founders resign from The Dialog Corporation (which acquired their previous company, Muscat Limited, in 1997). Grapeshot is born.

1997-2001

Grapeshot Founders work for The Dialog Corporation and build WebTop.com's 500 million document index of the internet using Muscat software in a distributed architecture. Dr. Porter leads R&D team to write new open source search software, now called Xapian.

1992-1997

Grapeshot Founders built Muscat software from standing start to 100 global corporate customers in five years, doubling revenues year-on-year and achieving 25% net profits. Sold Muscat in 1997 for $15 million.