Kaboodle, a collaborative search and content sharing startup based in Santa Clara, CA, has received $3.55 million in first round funding, from a syndicate of 10 investors, from Georges Harik, former director of Google Labs and an early Google employee, to Ron Conway, early backer of Google. The money will be used in part to hire the engineers who can help extract the right sort of information from the search results saved.
Essentially, Kaboodle lets people save their search results for others to review… It gathers links, photos, summaries and notes onto a single Web page that can be shared easily with others. For each of the search result pages saved, Kaboodle automatically pulls out relevant information. This could include pricing and feature information if it is a commercially relevant page; for example, about cameras or hotels. Kaboodle, which sees itself as particularly relevant for online shopping, says the pricing information helps people compare products.