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REPORT: Apple Acquires App Search Engine Chomp

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Apple has acquired app search engine Chomp, a sign that it also wants to help you discover apps, according to MG Siegler at TechCrunch.

Apple will use Chomp to totally revamp the App Store, according to the report.

Chomp refused to comment on the report.

Chomp allows users to see which apps are on sale, what the top 100 apps are, and what's trending. The search engine can find relevant results beyond what the name of the app is. 

Chomp was founded by Ben Keighran and Cathy Edwards. Ron Conway, BlueRun Ventures, and ex-Google angel investors backed the company. Kevin Rose and Ashton Kutcher were advisors.

Here's a screenshot of the app:

Chomp
Chomp

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Boonsri Dickinson is formerly BI's West Coast tech reporter, covering startups and technology. You'll see her at demo days and hackathons, talking to founders and VCs, and hanging out in incubators and accelerators. Prior to joining SAI, she was a freelance journalist for CBS Interactive (SmartPlanet and CNET). As a staff writer, she wrote feature stories for Discover magazine. While there, she was one of the first people to get her DNA sequenced -- and went dinosaur digging and got a dino named after her.