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Mobile app search engine Quixey, which has built a search engine to tackle app discovery by allowing consumers to find apps by searching for the kind of functionality they’re looking for, has closed a $50 million Series C funding round, led by Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group. , B, w( B$ s" M" i8 T4 q0 p+ ]8 i ! f9 s' }3 J5 J3 N$ ~Others participating in the round include new investor GGV Capital, and existing investors Innovation Endeavors, TransLink Capital and U.S. Venture Partners in the U.S., as well as Atlantic Bridge in London and Dublin and WI Harper in Beijing. The new funding round brings Quixey’s total raised to-date to $74.2 million.. @ ]7 f+ v4 v* ^: I& H1 \% @
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Quixey, which powers app search for a number of companies, including Sprint, Ask.com, browser makers, and OEMs, told TechCrunch it is now fielding more than 100 million queries per month. But its ambitions go beyond pure-play app discovery to app content discovery. , ^' q7 a5 F" @0 R* i , m4 w7 @! y M' c; W“We think our company’s mission is to get people into apps, which doesn’t just mean finding you a new app, it means we should be able to find you the content within apps,” said Quixey co-founder and CEO Tomer Kagan. An example use-case could be a user searching for Thai food — and being returned results across apps, as well as things like Yelp reviews and a current Groupon deal for a restaurant, for instance.9 L/ |' `" ]* y1 M; Y: B
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