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LinkedIn Buys Real-Time, Hosted Search Startup IndexTank

by rksprst on 10/11/11, 9:35 PM with 45 comments

  • by diego on 10/11/11, 11:26 PM

    I want to believe that my own post is more interesting than the TC article :)

    http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...

  • by mark_l_watson on 10/11/11, 10:39 PM

    "IndexTank says that LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months"

    So, the Heroku plugin goes away and customers like Reddit have to make other arrangements. Interesting that they would shut down a viable business - I don't understand that.

  • by nzadrozny on 10/11/11, 9:50 PM

    Congrats to the LinkedIn and IndexTank folks for the successful exit/acquisition.

    Apologies for tooting my own horn here, but for anyone wondering about alternatives for hosted search, there's always Apache Solr and fizx's and my hosted service at http://websolr.com/. We're bootstrapped, profitable, and going on two years old. And we intend to be around for a while!

    Feel free to hit me up with questions!

  • by nostromo on 10/11/11, 9:41 PM

    Super happy for you guys, congrats!! :)

    Super not happy to find a new search solution in the next six months. :(

  • by omfg on 10/11/11, 9:52 PM

    Can someone list some alternatives to IndexTank? We rely on them pretty heavily and this is going to leave us, and I imagine quite a few other companies, in a bind.

  • by rksprst on 10/11/11, 9:40 PM

    Great to see a fellow startup get acquired.

    But, I wish they held off on the acquisition until other "cloud providers" were willing and ready to implement these services that will be open sourced. Or at least keep your service up until then. This is great for the IndexTank team, but screws all of their customers (of which I am one).

  • by PabloOsinaga on 10/11/11, 9:57 PM

    I am really psyched to see IndexTank open source their technology (as notes mentions).

    Very intrigued to know which specific components of their technology will they open source - and how they fit within linkedin sna different projects http://sna-projects.com/sna/ and lucene / other open source projects at large.

    Really curious to know if any IndexTank / linkedin team member reading.

  • by herbivore on 10/11/11, 11:20 PM

    Congrats to the team!

    That said, it proves once again that entrepreneurs should not feel discouraged by the presence of competitors in their field. Continue to build your own great product. Your biggest, most successful competitor may be the next one to fail for whatever reason or, hopefully for them, have an early exit which clears the field for your product/service.

  • by wslh on 10/12/11, 2:32 AM

    IndexTank acquired by LinkedIn, Sapus Media's Cocos2D acquired by Zynga, two examples of excelent and very focused Argentinian products. Hope to see more from the south in the near future. It shows that there is light and a lot of value beyond software factories.

    Congrats to Diego!

  • by foxylad on 10/12/11, 1:19 AM

    Darn. I wanted to integrate IndexTank into our service next week, now I need to look at alternatives. The sooner you can confirm what happens next, the better.

  • by veb on 10/11/11, 9:38 PM

    Just got the email. Congrats guys! You're one of my favorite start-ups, and I'm really glad to see you guys succeed.

    When's the party? :-)

  • by mariano on 10/11/11, 9:41 PM

    Muy contento por la noticia :)

  • by devinfoley on 10/11/11, 9:44 PM

    I suppose this means that LinkedIn is moving away from Lucene NRT Search?

  • by iag on 10/11/11, 10:35 PM

    Congrats to IndexTank team!