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App: Goodbye Apture, Hello Highlight

What's this blog post about?

On November 2011, Apture announced its shutdown due to acquisition by Google, leaving thousands of Cloudflare customers without a contextual search service. In response, three members of the Cloudflare team held a one-day hackathon and developed Highlight, a similar service that provides web search, definitions, and "read aloud" functionality for users. The new app is available as a one-click install on Cloudflare-powered sites and can be used by Apture customers looking for a replacement.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
Dec. 19, 2011

Author(s)
John Roberts

Word count
394

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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