hakia Receives a 2008 'Webware 100' Award for Search and Reference

NEW YORK, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- hakia.com today announced that it received a 2008 Webware 100 award for "Search and Reference" by Webware, a CNET site. The Web 2.0 user community cast nearly two million votes in an online voting poll which ultimately selected the winners. Finalists for the 2008 Webware 100 Awards were selected by the editors of Webware.

The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Webware editors received and reviewed thousands of entries. A complete list of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.

hakia is a general purpose, semantic search engine, dedicated to quality search experience. The 2008 Webware Award win comes on the heels of hakia's announcement on the availability of quality-stamped health and medical content to users, as recommended by the Medical Library Association. The hakia.com search engine is currently operating in BETA mode while the development and analysis are underway.

hakia is also the only New York-based search company on the finalist and winner list, a fact that signals towards the technology innovation that is growing outside of Silicon Valley. hakia is the sole semantic search company, finalist and winner, in the "Search and Reference" category.

"This Webware 100 Award is an honor for hakia, as well as our application of semantic search," said Dr. Riza C. Berkan, CEO, hakia. "We are thrilled to receive such direct, positive reinforcement from our users and industry peers."

"The Webware 100 list has proven to be such a valuable resource for people new to Web 2.0," said Rafe Needleman, editor at Webware and CNET. "We honor those organizations who strive to deliver the most innovative Web 2.0 sites, services and applications."

Winners are invited to celebrate at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (http://www.web2expo.com/) held April 22-25, 2008 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Webware will honor the winners with a celebration as part of the Web 2.0 Expo Booth Crawl on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. PDT on the show floor. The Web 2.0 Expo is the official partner of the 2008 Webware 100 Awards. To view all the winners and finalists, go to: http://www.webware.com/100.

About hakia

hakia is a pioneer in the semantic search space and is currently in the late stages of developing technology with the potential to revolutionize the search industry. Founded in 2004, hakia is privately held and based in New York City. For more information about hakia, please visit http://www.hakia.com.