The makers of a text message-based search engine have received seed funding to continue developing a person-to-person contact app.

The makers of Bangalore-based Innoz, a mobile-based service that searches out and sends SMS-message answers to questions submitted via text, have received $500,000 to continue developing a recently released person-to-person location-based 'answer' service called Quest.

The $500,000 funding came from 500 Startups and angel investors, according to published reports. Quest is currently available through Google Play for Android phones; an iOS version is not yet available, but should be released soon, per the Quest website.

Quest is conceived as a 'people-powere answering app where the human mind will be the algorithm behind our answers.' It is designed to answer questions search engines often fail, such as 'who was the captain of the 1995 San Francisco Giants?' It is designed as an outgrowth and extension of the company's successful Innoz app, which compiled and automatically sent short, pre-written SMS answers to text-submitted questions.