Shortcut - just ask

Your gateway for a smarter web-search

Saturday, December 19, 2015

Shortcut™ is a knowledge exchange marketplace that helps you get personal, short and quick recommendations from your close friends. Shortcut™ combines your question and your friends’ answers and converts them into accurate, relevant and actionable information. Shortcut introduces a faster way to get recommendations from our friends. It cuts out the chit-chat and gets straight to the point. Questions and answers are limited to 40 and 30 characters respectively, which makes it legit to keep the communication focused, short and efficient, yet not be perceived as rude. Beyond the fact that all answers are indexed and stored in an organized and easy to find way, Shortcut enables its users to "swipe" any answer they receive and see the search results that best match it. Shortcut's technological goal is to develop algorithms that use machine-learning, natural language processing and AI, and predict which topics each user’s friends are knowledgeable about. We will use this accumulated knowledge to automatically suggest our users their friends who are most likely to provide an answer for each of their questions. That way, users will be able to easily and privately ask only their relevant friends for recommendation instead of publicly asking in social networks "can anyone recommend a..."