Silobreaker

Launched in January 2008, Silobreaker.com is an online search service providing content on global issues, technology, and business from more than 10,000 news, blog, research, and multimedia sources. Instead of just returning a list of articles matching the search query, it finds people, companies, keywords, and related topics. Moreover, it understands the relationship between these fields, puts them in context for the user, and delivers results through interactive graphs.

Silobreaker is the result of five years’ hard work by a team of two entrepreneurs and seven developers that started working on the intelligent search technology in 2003. Per Lindh, Chief Technology Officer at Silobreaker, says: “Traditional search engines provide keyword-related results but not all are relevant to the user—creating information overload. We wanted to provide a smarter tool that used both statistics and semantics to offer context to search results, improve information relevancy as per users’ preferences, and intelligently combine data—be it textual, numerical, or rich multimedia.”

The company’s key strength is its team of expert developers. In 2003, its Chief System Architect won the Google Code Jam—a worldwide coding competition. He was also a finalist in the TopCoder Open competition in 2008. Silobreaker also employs skilled developers that add value to user-facing features such as the interface.