Software995 Inc. announced that SearchWithin has expanded into its own standalone site at searchwithin.com, bringing together TV polls, podcast polls, venue recommendation polls, and restaurant menu surveys in one dedicated experience.
SearchWithin began as a ThinkMatch-powered survey and recommendation concept. With the standalone site, the TV, podcast, venue, and menu tools now have their own home while remaining connected to ThinkMatch's broader goal of making social decisions and real-world interaction easier.
SearchWithin is designed as an alternative to current rating systems where votes, stars, and reviews often come from people unlike you. A public rating can be useful, but it rarely knows your friends, your budget, your mood, your group, or the reason you are deciding right now.
The newest addition is SearchWithin Podcasts, which lets people search podcast shows and episodes, create a shared poll, and ask a group what to listen to next. Like the other SearchWithin tools, podcast polls are designed around recommendations from people you know or people in your social circle, not only public charts, algorithms, or anonymous reviews.
The standalone SearchWithin site also gives each tool a clearer public destination: SearchWithin TV for watch polls, SearchWithin Podcasts for listening decisions, SearchWithin Venues for local recommendations, and SearchWithin Menus for dish recommendation surveys.
"A lot of everyday decisions are social decisions," said Scott Rothstein, Architect at Software995 Inc. "SearchWithin is about asking the people whose taste, context, and relationship to you actually matter, whether the question is what to watch, what to listen to, where to go, or what to order."
About Software995 Inc.
Software995 Inc. is a Palo Alto, California-based software company best known for Pdf995, the long-running PDF creation and document publishing suite with more than 50 million installations and millions of enterprise users worldwide. For more than 20 years, Software995 has built practical, affordable software for document creation, conversion, security, search, backup, FTP, imaging, and workflow productivity. The company's newer products include ThinkMatch, a platform for real-world introductions, events, matching, invitations, chat, video, and group discovery, and SearchWithin, a survey experience that helps people understand themselves through feedback from the people around them.
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