The World Wide Web's vast ocean of information is the perfect match for WhizBang! Labs of Provo.
The company offers software capable of extracting specific information from an unlimited number of Web pages.
The technology led the company to develop one of the Internet's largest commercial online recruiting sites, FlipDog.com, which was named by PC Magazine as one of the Top 100 sites on the Web.
Rather than charge companies to post available jobs, like its competitors, WhizBang! technology crawls the Web and finds job postings automatically, extracts them, and places them into the FlipDog database.
FlipDog.com is a commercial career site with more than 600,000 jobs from more than 50,000 employers in more than 3,500 locations.
Since its launch in April 2000, FlipDog.com has grown to its current position as the fifth-most-trafficked Internet site dedicated to online recruiting as measured by unique visitors.
In May, WhizBang! Labs sold FlipDog.com to TMP Worldwide, owners of Monster.com.
WhizBang! Labs was founded in 1999 by Robert Sherwin, Berkeley Geddes and Dallan Quass, who partnered together to provide products both enabling and disruptive.
Their products are enabling because they allow companies to accomplish things that were previously not possible. They are disruptive because they allow entire industries to fundamentally change their methods of business practices.
The management team at WhizBang! Labs is seasoned and holds an arsenal of experience.
Sherwin, president and chief executive officer, holds a degree in engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of Michigan.
Geddes, chief information officer, has worked for Novell, served as the chief information officer for the Times Mirror Training Group and serves on the entrepreneur committee for Gov. Mike Leavitt's Silicon Valley Initiative.
Quass, chief technology officer, holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
During his Ph.D. studies at Stanford, Quass pioneered a successful data extraction company that was acquired by Amazon in 1998.