Software facilitates efficient Internet fact-gathering

BOULDER – Talk about a silver lining. In 2001 Joe Pezzillo’s Internet radio venture went belly up (the cloud). Then, later that year, while helping a search engine company in California, he came up with an idea for a new company, which is doing really well (the silver lining).

It was a single challenge Pezzillo faced when working with the search engine company that caused the “aha” moment. He was trying to figure out how to index content from several Web sites. “As we tackled how to automate extracting information from the Web sites, I saw a need for a simpler…