Boogami
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Boogami is a search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

 that was developed by James Wildish, a sixteen year old college student from Kent
Kent
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

 in United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Prior to launch James, gained a partnership with Yahoo, to reduce server loads by using their search feed, as the operational costs of running his own web spider were too high.

With the media attention and Boogami at its peak, on the first day of launch Boogami sold £5000 worth of advertising and was growing fast.

On launch James appeared on BBC, ITV, Local Radio and Press articles. However due to media attention and the surge of traffic, the servers crashed for a couple of hours. Now every search term returns: "Your Search produced No Results". On asking why the website was no longer operational, James said 'He had gained great experience from the project however wanted to move on to bigger brighter things in the years ahead'.

Boogami Life

In November 2008, James launched Boogami Life, a social networking site with a number of unique features. Businesses would be able to promote themselves by messaging all members of Boogami Life, providing an extremely powerful marketing tool. Boogami Life would actively participate and raise money for good causes and people could make direct appeals to all members to help find missing persons. Members would also be provided with opportunities to make money through a number of income streams as membership grows.

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