Kiwi Pingar revolutionises search engines

Tauranga software company Pingar unveiled its latest application today – a new search algorithm that takes the browsing out of browsing.Developed in association with the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), the Search and Publishing Application holds real value for information-rich industries.Peter Wren-Hilton, Pingar Managing Director, says the company is now taking the next step into market.“After three years of research and development, the reception to the Pingar platform in these past few weeks has exceeded all expectations and we are now engaging with significant global channel partners and major potential international customers.”Pingar’s future strategy is to build on the international relationships it has developed to ensure the company becomes a significant global player in the multi-billion dollar search and knowledge engineering space, he says.Pingar’s application goes inside data documents, finds the content the user is seeking and then places it into a dynamically generated PDF document, rather than just presenting a list of links like the traditional search model. Continued advances to Pingar’s applications are part of the ‘Kaimai Project’ at AUT, which sees a team of professors and PhD researchers developing new approaches to improve the knowledge-worker and internet-users’ search experiences.The company has been identified by Microsoft as having high-growth potential, and was accepted into the Microsoft Start-up Accelerator Program in the United Kingdom last year.