Company History

Transformational Search Technology Innovation

Ron Millett had his first exposure to computer search as a researcher at Brigham Young University in the 1980's, working in a CAD/CAM technology lab where he expanded an expert system shell algorithm to apply it to full text search. Spinoffs of this technology helped companies such as SoftSolutions, WordPerfect and Folio compete in the growing search tool and document management market. Ron went to work for WordPerfect and while there he developed QuickFinder, which was the world's first search engine inside a word processor. During this time, Ron authored or co-authored 10 patents related, to search and continued his work on search technology for Cogito.

In 2005, Ron was considering how Moore's law had applied to hardware, seeing the doubling of processing power every 18 months, all while there had been no significant speed improvement on the software side of search retrieval technology. As he pondered this, he had a breakthrough about how to approach the query process from a different angle. He approached his long-time associate Bruce Tietjen, with whom he had co-authored 4 search-related patents, and Bruce agreed to work on the project from his home in Taiwan.

The Combustion of Innovation Meeting Vision

During this development period, when the initial patent applications were filed, Ron began collaboration with Stanford University PhD Dillon Inouye, a professor at Brigham Young University.A gifted visionary, Dillon had previous search experience as the co-founder of Folio Corporation, which was later sold to FAST. The seeds of Ron's idea had been planted in Dillon's mind while he was lending a hand to his parents on their farm in Central Utah. This is when the idea began to germinate-as he related it to the harvesting process on the farm: the process of using a combine to harvest grain. Separating the wheat from the chaff was the idea that was sparked, directly related to the seed Ron had planted in Dillon's mind.

Providing initial funding in early 2006, Dillon and Ron closely collaborated, with Dillon challenging Ron to question general principles commonly accepted by computer engineers. What was required was a paradigm shift. Ron had to be convinced that Dillon's ideas could be implemented. The shift happened, code was written, and history was made.

 

John Higgins, former professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at BYU, played a significant role in helping to develop these key concepts The collaboration between John, combined with Dillon's visionary perspective and Ron's unique programming abilities, enabled Ron to develop a prototype around these innovative concepts. The result: They knew they had discovered a game-changing and disruptive technology in the field of search.

An Innovative Company is Launched

George Watanabe joined the team as a co-founder, taking on the responsibility of raising the start-up seed capital and investor funding necessary to launch and fuel the company. On January 23, 2007 Perfect Search Corporation was incorporated in the State of Delaware. The work had begun to transition the software from prototype to production level.

The Next Generation of Search Technology

Since its inception, Perfect Search Corporation has continued to perfect its technology and has gained tremendous traction in the marketplace. With the exponential explosion of electronic information, Perfect Search's technology was most certainly developed for such a time as this. Perfect Search is the premier answer to the question everyone is asking:

"How will I find the information I need when I need it?"

 The answer: Perfect Search.