Eurekster Gets $5.5 Million Series B for Social Search

eureksterEurekster, known for their Swicki community-driven search platform, has just announced $5.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan.

Eurekster’s most popular product product, Swicki’s, are site specific search engines (we’ve included a swicki in our right sidebar for some time). This has turned into a crowded space over the last year or so – Rollyo, Google Co-Op, and Yahoo! Search Builder all have good products.