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Cazoodle Inc., established in August 2006, as a startup company from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), provides software and internet services for Web search, integration, and mining, with a central objective to "deepen" search on the Web-- to access the vast amount of data beyond the reach of current search engines. The company is co-founded by Prof. Kevin C. Chang and his research team, with the support of the University and technology transfer from the MetaQuerier research at UIUC.

Cazoodle is located at EnterpriseWorks -- an incubator facility of the University-- on the Research Park of UIUC in Champaign, Illinois. See us here on the UIUC campus map.

Cazoodle aims at enablling effective access to structured information on the Internet. While current search engines index pages only as unstructured documents by keywords, the Web has continually grown with a large amount of structured data, which encodes attribute values of structured objects such as jobs (with title, location, industry etc.), flights (with departure city, return city, departure time, passenger etc.) or real estate listings (with location, MLS#, property type etc.). Such structured data are accessed by two means:

through static URL links, called the surface Web, e.g., craiglist.com or any typical Web sites; and
through form-based querying, called the deep Web, e.g., flight schedules in aa.com, job listings at hotjobs.com, and homes for sale at realtor.com.

As our current objective, Cazoodle focuses on developing a suite of solutions for enabling data-aware search to both the surface and the deep Web, aiming at supporting the pressing demand of building vertical search services in specialized domains on the Web.