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“Today Grokr is releasing a Google Now for iOS. Except … not exactly. Actually, it’s much better than Google Now, and it is likely to stay that way for a long time.”
by John Koetsier, VentureBeat
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“The new Grokr app can do much of the same [Google Now], but also offers even more by incorporating the info it gathers from your social networking profiles on other networks, like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Meanwhile, Google Now’s understanding is limited to the information gleaned from Google’s own services. Granted, that’s still a truckload of information, but it isn’t necessarily a complete picture.”
by Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
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“Grokr has done a very nice job with its UI. It also offers a great deal more value and information than simply “mobile search.” As an aside, if I were Yahoo I would buy the company and make it the guts of a new, richer Yahoo mobile search app.”
by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land
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“This [Grokr] does sound intriguing because it’s another sign of how our devices and apps can become even more personal in the way they cater to our needs based on data it can absorb. And I like that it acknowledges that search on mobile needs to be different, more immediate and intelligent using as much context as possible.”
by Ryan Kim, GigaOm
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“Their free app, available today, is essentially an iOS version of Google Now, the Android-only search app that compiles information like the weather, airplane flights and concerts based on your location. It is noticeably more visual-focused than its Google counterpart, though.”
by Christina Bonnington, Wired
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“The big picture here is that Grokr is trying to build something of a predictive search engine – no small task, given Google’s dominance in all things search. But the company believes that mobile allows for this kind of opportunity.”
by Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
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“If Apple integrated this technology [Grokr] into the iPhone natively it would make a lot of users happier. Its founder, Srivats Sampath, was the former CEO of McAfee.com, the Web-based antivirus service—so he'd bring a ton of experience in running large-scale Web services.”
by Kevin Smith and Owen Thomas, Business Insider
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“Google Now is awesome. Predicting what you’ll want by tracking your every move and search might seem creepy, but in practice it’s great. I wish it was on the iPhone too. Thankfully someone’s thought of that. Meet Grokr, Google Now, or maybe even better, for the iPhone.”
by Sam Gibbs, Gizmodo UK
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“Apple users who are fed up with Siri, the iPhone's voice-command software, are about to get another option.”
by Megan Rose Dickey, Business Insider
