?Search? Is Obsolete? Says Xyologic, As It Takes On The Mobile Apps Long Tail

Cast your minds back - if you can - to the days when the web was a jumble of random pages. 'Web surfing' consisted, quite literally, of somehow finding a website and then clicking through links to other sites as the mood took you. Yes, really. That really was all you could do. Eventually Yahoo! came along to put sites into directories. But it wasn't really until Google came along that the 'long tail' of the the web started to be uncovered. Today it's 1994 all over again, at least in the world of mobile apps. Despite startups like Zwapp, Appsfire, Yappler, Apptizr, Appolicious and the rest trying their best to surface the long tail of mobile apps, the iTunes store, Google Play and Widows Market remain a chaotic jumble. I'm sure we are all familiar with the experience of literally surfing stores to find what app we want.

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