When we put out the welcome mat for Zuula a little over a month ago, we didn’t realize just how many visitors would come bounding across the threshold. Wow! Thanks for the positive response!

The influx of new users has meant that we’ve been extra busy making sure Zuula can handle the additional traffic. True, the software and hardware infrastructure that brings you Zuula every day has held up extremely well. (Please don’t let those be famous last words!) But that doesn’t change the fact that we’ve had to do plenty of poking, tweaking, and hand-wringing to ensure Zuula’s uptime.

As a result, we’ve had much less time than expected to keep you posted about all that’s going on with Zuula.

We’ll try to make up for our “radio silence,” however, in the next few weeks. So watch this space!

Even though we opened Zuula to use by the general public over a month ago, we didn’t make much of an effort to publicize our launch until last week. At that point, we had finished adding some additional server capacity, and we’d also implemented some new features and technical fixes we wanted to have complete.

So, at that point, we decided to “push the ‘ON’ button.” We sent out our launch press release over the newswires. We reached out to some media outlets to make them aware of Zuula. And we generally started marketing Zuula much more actively than we had since the beginning of November.

The results have been gratifying. (Read on …)

We’ve launched. We did the last tweaks to Zuula yesterday afternoon, put up the press release announcing the launch, and then declared Zuula officially open for public use.

We’re very happy, of course, to have reached this milestone. We celebrated a bit yesterday at our offices here in Princeton, and there are a lot of smiles and laughter at the office this morning.

There’s good cause for celebration. Zuula has evolved into a very powerful and very useful search tool. Developing that kind of tool has taken a lot of hard work, so the sense of accomplishment among those on the Zuula development team is well deserved. We all should extend our congratulations to them. (Read on …)

… we’ll be opening Zuula for our public beta very soon! We’ll post an update here when we officially go “live.”