Hi, we’re Swingly. We’re here because we think you deserve a better search engine. We know you love your favorite search engine. So do we. We’ve always been big fans of Google and Yahoo!, we told our friends about Ask, Clusty, and Powerset, and we like what Microsoft’s doing with Live.

But it’s time to face facts. While keyword-based search is great for a lot of things, there are times when it just lets us all down. For starters: we think it’s crazy that most search engines leave you to scan zillions of search results just to find the one piece of information you need. At Swingly, we think that it should be a search engine’s sworn duty to find the particular piece information that you’re looking for, no matter if you’re asking a complex question like:

How much money did Top Gun make outside of the U.S.?

or just putting together a simple keyword query like

Top Gun international gross

If you’re like us, you don’t care if Google’s index contains 295,000 pages which could potentially help you. Who’s got time to read all of that? You only want to know one thing: the amount of money that “Top Gun” made in countries other than the United States. (It’s $168 million, by the way.)

That’s where we come in.

Swingly is a new type of semantic search engine designed to help you find answers to questions — wherever they can be found on the Internet. Right now, we’re hard at work building a brand-new type of semantic index that will change how you search for factual information. When we’re finished (sometime later this spring), we’ll have the largest semantic index ever created: one that contains answers to more than 10 billion questions, related to practically every topic imaginable.

We’re planning on rolling out our public beta in the Spring of 2009.

Want to take us for a spin? Just e-mail us at beta (@) swingly (.) com, and we’ll add you to the VIP list.

We’re adding content to our index, night and day. Right now, we know the answer to just about 72,389,439 unique questions.

From Silvio at the CaronteWeb blog.

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