Jon Goldhill and Yves Dassas started Zanran, an information search engine, after obtaining degrees and starting other businesses. Zanran provides concise summaries of documents by extracting titles and other useful text and indexing it to allow users to search for data across the internet. To handle scaling needs, Zanran moved its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services which provided more flexibility, lower costs, and ability to scale compared to maintaining their own datacenters.