Niall Kennedy’s project that launched yesterday, StartupSearch, makes it easy to track web startup companies, as well as products and people in the industry. It’s a directory that gives you basic info on a company or product: its founders, its description, and traffic details based on Alexa, Quantcast and Compete stats.
Another very important feature of StartupSearch is BuzzTracking. Click on Buzz, and you’ll see some important metrics of the buzz that surrounds a product or a company: number of links; number of mentions on Technorati, number of searches, and news reference volume.
Currently, StartupSearch’s directory is severely underpopulated, but this is bound to change in the future. I’m sure that StartupSearch will become an important and valuable resource for web professionals.
Thanks to CleverClogs for notifying us about StartupSearch.
Why should it become a valuable resource? More important, the reasons it offers for only tracking US companies are pretty lame.
@Dennis: I think its buzz-tracking capabilities are quite valuable. Don’t you? There are other ways to find them out, of course, but here you get lots of data in one place.
While I can see that it is a work in progress, it is just like any other directory with a few more bells and whistles.
This kind of site will only be useful for people in the industry and not the general public. I don’t think a flickr pro user really cares how much fund capital photobucket raised and from whom.