A year ago, at Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco, we launched the Taptu search engine in alpha version to the public. And today, we want to thank everyone who’s helped us build Taptu into what it is now.

First, thank you to our users who’ve shown us that the efforts we’ve put in are worthwhile by leaving us feedback which arrived in giant bags of fan mail (ok, maybe not), through our feedback pages and via email. You’re the reason we get up in the morning, the oxygen to our fire, the battery power to our mobile phones. In short, you’re what keeps us going!

Thank you to the truck delivery guys for not getting mad at us when we ordered yet another massive shipment of 750GB hard drives, many more of which arrived throughout the year.

Thank you to the user from North Carolina who searched for “reverse green hair dye” for the giggles it gave us reminiscing on bad hairdye experiences of our own. We truly hope you managed to fix your colour.

A generous thank you to the thousands of users who have been searching for Lil Wayne, we still don’t see it ourselves, but we’re glad you like him.

A playful thank you to the millions of players of the Taptu Music Cube game we released early in 2008. You raised the game by being far better than us at 80’s music trivia! (I was grateful when the girls released a cheat’s guide…)

We also owe a lot to the wonderful bloggers, journalists and other media pundits who took interest in Taptu’s growth and evolution; Ricky Cadden, Robert Scoble, Peggy Anne Salz, Andrew Grill and Pete Barrett, just to name a few.

So thank you all for helping us learn to stand on our feet, stumble around and finally walk properly. We look forward to the next few years where we run, learn to play football and score a few goals.

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