新兴公司Quixey近日宣布推出一款应用搜索引擎，支持开发者同时管理不同应用商店的产品。

这种功能为开发者提供了极大的便利，他们无需分别访问各个应用商店，就可在同一地点管理自己发布的所有应用程序。除此之外，Quixey应用开发者帐号还支持开发者在同一地点，察看用户对产品的评价和反馈。据该公司所称，该引擎已收到了试用该帐户的开发者“极为积极的反馈”。

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Quixey的搜索技术可节省开发者寻找不同版本应用的麻烦，会适时提醒开发者他们还没有访问哪个平台，并告知用户他们所喜欢的应用支持运行于哪些手机平台。

这款搜索引擎的设计充分考虑了用户需求，假如用户输入了“寻找便宜的汽油”这个问题，该引擎的搜索结果就会显示所有的相关应用信息。Quixey的创始人是Tomer Kagan和Liron Shapira，他们将这项产品称为“功能性搜索引擎”，并将其描述为“锁定应用领域的新型搜索引擎”。

该公司直接竞争对手包括Chomp和Appolicious（游戏邦注：前者最初关注的是应用推荐领域，现在也添加了搜索引擎功能，而Appolicious在应用搜索领域也已活跃多时）。Quixey公司位于加州山景城，其种子轮融资已获得40万美元资金，主要投资者包括Eric Schmidt的Innovation Endeavours和Archimedes Ventures。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

App search engine Quixey lets developers manage apps across app stores

Quixey, a new startup that’s developing a search engine dedicated to apps, announced today that it will also make life easier for developers by giving them an easy way to manage their apps across multiple stores.

Such a feature would be a boon to developers, since they can manage messaging for theirs apps in one location instead of having to visit each app store one at a time. Additionally, Quixey’s App Developer accounts will allow developers to see what users are saying about their apps in one location. The company says it has received “extremely positive feedback” from developers who’ve been testing out the accounts.

Quixey’s search technology will also scrape the web to find all available versions of apps, which will remind developers of the platforms they haven’t yet hit, and will offer consumers an easy way to see which platforms their favorite apps support.

Quixey has built from scratch an app search engine that responds to user needs. For example, a query of “find cheap gas” will bring up apps that will help with just that. Founders Tomer Kagan and Liron Shapira call this “functional search” and describe it as “a new type of search specifically for the app world.”

The company will compete directly with Chomp, which has been attacking the app discovery problem for some time now — first with app recommendations, and now with a search engine focus. Appolicious has also been in the app search game for some time now.

Mountain View, Calif.,-based Quixey has raised $400,000 in seed funding from investors including Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavours and Archimedes Ventures. The company plans to launch at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City on May 23 to May 25.（source:venturebeat）