LinkedIn has acquired IndexTank, startup which provide real-time hosted search technology. This deal will help LinkedIn to improve search technology of the professional network.
IndexTank founder and CEO Diego Basch said in a blog post,“LinkedIn has exploded over the past few years, and the search team has done a fantastic job at building world-class technologies to keep up with the growth. Of course, this doesn’t stop here and we’re working on the next play. This growth will continue and perhaps accelerate. One day every smartphone owner could use LinkedIn to find opportunity.”
He added for their customers,”LinkedIn has agreed to maintain the IndexTank service running for the next six months, as well as to open source the key components that would enable cloud providers to offer a service fully compatible with the IndexTank API. This means that our existing customers will be able to transition seamlessly to other providers.”
