Charlie Crystle wanted to reduce the amount of useless information that came to him online. Then the man from Lancaster experimented with different ways to organize his thoughts on a computer.
That’s when it hit Crystle in an era when nearly every piece of information is an Internet search away, it’s pretty easy to see what people are thinking about by examining their online search queries. The desire to organize his thoughts resulted in a searchable index of search terms, along with links to the Web pages Crystle looked at, all automatically saved with an Internet browser extension.
Sharing this information would create more value, he thought, by allowing like-minded people to comment on the information Crystle was trying to find. “There’s value in sharing your searches,” he says. “It’s one of the last things that hasn’t been indexed.”
Since September he has been working on Jawaya, a platform that saves an Internet user’s search queries and browsing history, so you can easily find that website you came across last month. A Jawaya user can make this information private, public or visible to a select group of people. Users can follow each other to see what they’ve been searching for, sort of like Twitter. This would allow users to find others who are looking for similar information.
“Most likely, you’re going to find people who you don’t know, but who share the same interests,” Crystle says. Right now he’s seeking venture capital to get Jawaya past the testing phase.
Source: Charlie Crystle, Jawaya
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen
That’s when it hit Crystle in an era when nearly every piece of information is an Internet search away, it’s pretty easy to see what people are thinking about by examining their online search queries. The desire to organize his thoughts resulted in a searchable index of search terms, along with links to the Web pages Crystle looked at, all automatically saved with an Internet browser extension.
Sharing this information would create more value, he thought, by allowing like-minded people to comment on the information Crystle was trying to find. “There’s value in sharing your searches,” he says. “It’s one of the last things that hasn’t been indexed.”
Since September he has been working on Jawaya, a platform that saves an Internet user’s search queries and browsing history, so you can easily find that website you came across last month. A Jawaya user can make this information private, public or visible to a select group of people. Users can follow each other to see what they’ve been searching for, sort of like Twitter. This would allow users to find others who are looking for similar information.
“Most likely, you’re going to find people who you don’t know, but who share the same interests,” Crystle says. Right now he’s seeking venture capital to get Jawaya past the testing phase.
Source: Charlie Crystle, Jawaya
Writer: Rebecca VanderMeulen