April 30, 2010
 
Los Angeles-based Ranker (http://www.ranker.com) experienced continued early growth in the month of April, as over 400,000 unique visitors hit the site. A new version of the companies “connected linkmaking” platform launched in the middle of the month, and time spent on site immediately increased by 75% per visitor. Some popular lists include Celebrity Deaths in 2010 and 2010 Movie Trailers.
 
Ranker is a platform for ranking anything in the universe, using linked data to connect items on lists and users who make them. Much of Ranker’s dataset is powered by Freebase (http://www.freebase.com); although still in beta, the site has hundreds of thousands of lists in hundreds of categories. In May, Ranker will be releasing the aggregation of individual lists into “wisdom of crowds” rankings.
 
Ranker also announces the hiring of Premesh Purayil, a hands on semantic technologies veteran as the company’s new Engineering Lead. Purayil joins Ranker with years of experience building and deploying large scale semantic solutions. He most recently co-founded Cerebra Inc , a provider  of scalable content and merchandising solutions enabling the next generation of Content Delivery, Advertising and eCommerce Optimization.

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