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Cazoodle Makes it Easy to Find Stuff on the Web; Unveils Its Shopping Search at DEMOfall 09

on Sep 22, 2009 (full story) (cached pdf)

New Apartment Rental Search Engine Offers Thirty Times More Listings Than Current Services, Product Launch At Web 2.0 Expo 2009

on March 23, 2009 (full story) (cached pdf)

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Cazoodle Shopping Search

on December 15, 2009 from TheBAG.com by Laurie Dixon

Friends, shoppers no longer need to visit different websites to find the electronics they are interested in. Cazoodle Shopping Search is the first and only organic shopping search service that simultaneously provides comprehensive as well as precise product information. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Practical Use for Semantics

on September 27, 2009 from BLUEREEK by Barry O'Gorman

... Read an interesting piece on www.cazoodle.com. For now offering comparison shopping re electronic goods and apartment rental (in US). Authors claim to be using the power of their semantic search engine to extract the relevant data from multiple sites to present detailed product purchasing options and comparisons. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle Shopping Search Launches Service for Electronics

on September 27, 2009 from PULSE2 by Amit Chowdhry

Cazoodle Inc. is a start-up company that spun out of a project at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Cazoodle was founded by Professor Kevin C. Chang and a research team of undergraduate/graduate students. Cazoodle is located at EnterpriseWorks, an incubation facility based on the Research Park at UIUC. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

DEMO Fall 09: the “Smart Money” Category

on September 23, 2009 from Los Angeles Tech Culture by Osman Ali

... The energy infused into the audience by Cazoodle’s presentation or their new Cazoodle Shopping Beta. Although not as popular as other apartment search aggregators based on traffic alone, one can argue that the quality and expanse of results of Cazoodle Apartment search is among the best. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cool Products, Companies at DEMOfall 09

on September 23, 2009 from Network World by Keith Shaw

... I didn't think a comparison shopping site was needed these days, but Cazoodle helped convince me otherwise. The site utilizes large scale data integration technology to scan thousands of Web sources to create a deeper list of options for shoppers, quite often providing better prices. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle Shopping

on September 22, 2009 from Time Saving Tutorials by parrotguy

Cazoodle.com has a super product search that combines pricing history, specifications and vendor information. Easy to use, yet very powerful. This is a run, don't walk to site... (full story) (cached pdf)

DEMO: Cazoodle Helps you Find Shopping Deals and Info Across the Web

on September 22, 2009 from VentureBeat by Anthony Ha

Cazoodle Shopping Search helps shoppers find the product information that they need. The company says it uses semantic search technology to connect shoppers with offers from every merchant, allowing you to integrate both deals and knowledge from multiple sites. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

DEMO: Cazoodle Helps You Find Shopping Deals and Info Across the Web

on September 22, 2009 from TechOat

NCSA Teams up with U.S. Army to Devise Smart Web Crawling System

on July 23, 2009 from TECH.COM by Erika Strebel

... The NCSA team’s Web crawler was integrated with the user interface that Vertex had designed. Also, because the Army expressed an interest in mining the deep Web—the databases, live newsfeeds and data hidden behind form searches that makes a large segment of the data available online—Craig suggested collaboration with Cazoodle, a software company launched by former NCSA Faculty Fellow Kevin Chang, a professor in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Ultimate ILS Aggregator: Too Good to Be True?

on June 29, 2009 from Multifamily Executive Magazine by Chris Wood

... Promising "one search, all rentals, entire Web," Champaign, Ill.-based Cazoodle went live three months ago and is currently working out kinks like how to display pay-per-click featured listings and allow partnerning ILSs to gain better edit control of their listings. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

RentShout Expands Rental Property Advertising Coverage to Cazoodle and ApartmentHunterz

on June 23, 2009 from Go Smart Solutions

... Cazoodle unveiled their nationwide apartment search service earlier this year at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site has an intuitive map search which enables renters to narrow down their search in a step-by-step fashion from anywhere in the United States. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle Plunges into the Deep Web

on June 22, 2009 from melrossmk by melrossmk

... Cazoodle leverages the big and turning sum of structured data within specific knowledge base. With Semantic hunt accross multiple Web origins, Cazoodle 's hunting engines enable immense coverage of available info. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

An Interview with Kevin Chang, Co-founder of Cazoodle

on June 11, 2009 from Alt Search Engines by Hope Leman

... Cazoodle was started by a bunch of graduate students and me, so you could imagine what we got when I asked the students to brainstorm when we were looking for “driving applications.” They came up with two areas—apartments and used cars. And, you know why! We eventually picked apartments according to their ranking of pain. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Awareness Watch Newsletter V7N6 June 2009

on May 23, 2009 from Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant

Our section is on P.27. (full story) (cached pdf)

Radio Interview - Central Illinois Business with Alex Ruggieri

on May 16, 2009 from Ruggieri Team

(full story) (cached audio file)

Apartment Search with Maps/Pictures

on May 16, 2009 from SOLUTIONS I HAVE FOUND

Cazoodle Apartment Search - One Search, All Apartments, Entire Web! (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle - Search, Integrate, and Organize -- The Real World

on May 12, 2009 from Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant by MARCUS

... With the mission of providing semantic data-aware search, Cazoodle is focusing on the pressing demands of building "vertical," or domain specialized, search services. Cazoodle has general platform technologies for supporting intelligent vertical search for virtually every domain, using which Cazoodle is building services in selected domains. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

The Problem or the Solution: Can the Web Be Both? - A Special Report from Web 2.0 Expo

on May 11, 2009 from Web 2.0 The Magazine by David Bunnell

... Next, I checked in at Cazoodle, a vertical search engine far enough under the radar to have not yet been sued for trademark infringement by the slightly larger search engine they wish to compete with. Cazoodle’s CTO, Govind Kabra, was kind enough to demonstrated the company's first vertical search website—an apartment searching tool for the San Francisco area which at any one time has over 30,000 listing. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle Apartment Search Engine Created at University of Illinois

on May 5, 2009 from Real Estate Score Blog by Joseph Ferrara

... Cazoodle apparently is a real search engine, using semantic search, designed to crawl the “deep” web for apartments in the U.S., by automatically collecting apartment listings from thousands of landlord websites and other online sources, who do not pay to get listed. Cazoodle is integrated with Google Street View. It is a free service. It was officially launched April 13, 2009. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

A Vois en Vidéo : un Moteur de Recherche Vertical Intelligent Nommé Cazoodle

on April 26, 2009 from Ramenos Blog

Cazoodle tente de s’imposer sur la recherche verticale et sémantique (appartements, événements et shopping). Leur outil me semble vraiment pas mal. Mais rien ne vaut une petite vidéo explicative pour comprendre leur démarche. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle Dives into the Deep Web

on April 16, 2009 from Cloudy Times by Markus Klems

Cazoodle, a spin-off from University of Illinois (famous for technology innovation such as Mosaic, Netscape, PayPal and YouTube), is dedicated to exploring both the surface Web and the depths of the Deep Web. Using technology developed in the research group of Prof. Kevin Chang at UIUC, Cazoodle provides vertical search services, i.e. domain-specific search engines (Apartment Search, Event Search, Shopping Search). ... (full story) (cached pdf)

The Leman Report - the Final Day of the Web 2.0 Expo

on April 8, 2009 from AltSearchEngines

... Cazoodle is a nifty little search engine and could develop into something quite powerful. I am most intrigued by the fact that it has emerged out an incubator facility of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Good for Associate Professor Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. Now that is innovative teaching: providing real-world experience for students that also benefits the wider search community. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle: Semantic Search

on April 3, 2009 from Beyond Search by Stephen Arnold

... Developed by Chambana wizards, Cazoodle “looks to create semantic data-aware search for various verticals, starting with apartments, events, and shopping (electronics, for the most part).” Euwyn makes clear that Cazoodle is a vertical search engine; that is, the content focuses on a specific topic such as apartments. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Cazoodle - Semantic Data-aware Search

on April 2, 2009 from EUWYN by Euwyn Poon

... One of Cazoodle’s primary verticals is apartments. Given the pain involved in finding an apartment in New York and other big cities, I actually found it quite surprising that there isn’t a good solution in the space (beyond CL mashups like HousingMaps, which rely on the CL postings and aren’t very comprehensive). ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Video Coverage at Web 2.0 Conference

on April 2, 2009 from KRON4 by Brian Shields

DEMO 09 - Interview with Cazoodle: Future DEMO Presenter?

on March 4, 2009 from TECH~SURF~BLOG by Graeme Thickins

... a DEMO attendee, Govind Kabra, who wanted to give me a look at his startup's new search technology... from the University of Illinois. I told him, with that bloodline, I definitely wanted to hear more... let him tell me what his startup is doing to disrupt the apartment search business. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Entrepreneur Watch: Cazoodle Crawls Vertical Listings

on February 24, 2009 from Kelsey Group Blogs by Peter Krasilovsky

Cazoodle, a new listings-based service, has launched from the incubator at The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (yes, Marc Andreeson's former territory). The site currently crawls for apartment listings and shopping. Additional vertical categories such as events are anticipated, notes Professor Kevin Chang, ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Website Offers Comprehensive Look at Apartments for Rent

on December 1, 2008 from The News-Gazette.com by Don Dodson

... Kevin Chang has developed a new way to find apartments on the Web, using University of Illinois research into how to conduct "deeper" Web searches. The result is Cazoodle, a Web site that provides comprehensive listings of apartments in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas, including Champaign-Urbana. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

Tech Cocktail at Champaign Big Ten Style

On September 25, 2008 from Somewhat Frank by Frank Guber

... Cazoodle - offers “deepen” search on the Web–to access the vast amount of data beyond the reach of current search engines. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

CS Professor and Students Take Apartment Hunting High Tech

on 15 September, 2008 from ENGINEERING AT ILLINOIS by Jennifer C. LaMontagne

... "Every year, thousands of students, faculty, and residents come to town looking for apartments. They all spend several hours compiling lists of landlord and classified ad sites, sifting through each one to find a new place," said Chang. "Currently, there is no Google-like search site for apartments to make this process easy." Cazoodle Apartment Search, the first product from Cazoodle, solves precisely this problem. It automatically searches all apartment listings, landlord, and review sites at once. ... (full story) (cached pdf)

NCSA Teams Up with U.S. Army to Devise Smart Web Crawling System

on 12 May, 2008 from NCSA by Erika Strebel

...Also, because the Army expressed an interest in mining the deep Web: the databases, live newsfeeds and data hidden behind form searches that makes a large segment of the data available online. Craig suggested collaboration with Cazoodle, a software company launched by former NCSA Faculty Fellow Kevin Chang, a professor in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department. "Alan immediately realized, 'Why reinvent this? Let's go and see what (Cazoodle) has,'" says Wadsworth. "It was so beautiful, we couldn't ask for more." ... (full story) (cached pdf)