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Searchles, a Seattle based company has managed to raise a $2 million angel round and claims at having partnerships with various well known companies (the names of which remains disclosed).

Searchles is highly scaleable ‘social search’ platform that enables collaboration amongst peers and stores it in the index, making it searchable the next time you look up (or anyone else). Based on a hybrid platform, it combines the features of social bookmarking and social networking with social search. The network search lets you search content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords along with an added ability to apply the same to search through various posts, groups etc.

Elias Shams, CEO of Searchles said:

As proposed partnerships with a few major media properties move forward, this additional funding will help us in keeping pace with demand for these dynamic and customized social solutions for online publishers.

However the present raise in funding is the continuation of the jimbo that the social web services have been a part of for quite a long time. With these services sniffing out the length and breadth off the web-sphere for users and revenue flow; success has seemed to be further than it possibly seems. Eric Eldon has pointed at the same in view and he is of the opinion that there is nothing much that has been altered over the course of time.

Then what exactly makes Searchles, another social bookmark site? The reason could be it has its focus fixed at publishing partners, it has content recommendation that somewhat makes it do better than the stand alone social bookmarking sites. The break here for Searchles is that various Media companies are looking forward and experimenting with different services for providing recommendations, sounds pretty alluring for Searchles to strike.