The longest comment thread in the history of domaining is the post that Michael wrote four years ago about 3D, it has 5,371 comments. So for those interested in the topic of 3D there is a new search engine launching on a .es domain is all about 3D content, the engine will be using the domain hack 3Dshap.es. Jennifer Hicks of Forbes covered the launch and went over what the future growth rates for 3D content look like. Jennifer also gave some background into the funding and who is behind this new 3D search engine.
From the article:
In 1990, the first web browser was created. Then came semantic and predictive search. And now, in 2014, there’s 3D search.
With Europe expected to be the second-fastest growing market for 3D, with a growth rate of 15.7% from 2013 to 2018, a UK company called 3DI is on the right track.
Funded by the Technology Strategy Board in the UK and a handful of private angel investors, 3DI has launched a new search engine called 3Dshap.es that navigates 3D content on the web by shape.
3Dshap.es uses drag-and-drop functionality to let users upload 3D models of shapes similar to those they are searching for to 3D print.
The company was founded in 2013 and already has a list of 3D clients and partners including Shapeways.com ($48.5 million in funding in 2014), 3DLT.com, Proto3000.com, CADENAS which is the largest industrial 3D catalog firm.
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