Clicker may be on its way to becoming the brand name for finding your favorite TV shows online. It has just raised $11 million in a Series B funding round led by JAFCO Ventures, with existing investors also participating.
The Los Angeles-based search engine’s funding was also boosted greatly back in October, when it received $8 million in another round it closed.
Though the search engine launched only three months ago, it’s already the most recognizable online TV guide. It doesn’t actually store any of the content on its site – it just makes searching for online TV, a process that can be frustrating, tedious, and cumbersome at the best of times, a much easier process.
Currently, the site is lacking many links to the most popular shows. A search for Friends begets only seven episodes, Entourage shows only six episodes, and there are no links to any episodes of Sex and the City. It does, however, include over 600,000 episodes in its index, spanning 10,000 TV shows.
The funding, however, wasn’t completely necessary. Clicker’s CEO Jim Lanzone said the company was not yet out of money from the first round of funding, but saw interest from quite a few venture capitalists and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.
Kaila Krayewski is a freelance journalist with a passion for all things internet. Having worked for nearly two years as the public relations manager for an internation search engine optimization company, and publishing hundreds of articles (how-to, informational, and otherwise) on SEO, she knows a thing or two about the field. Furthermore, having just started up her own website blondetraveler.com, she is doing her best to keep one step ahead of the search engines in order to keep the traffic flowing.
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