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Grammarly, Inc.
File:Screenshot of Grammarly website.png
Screenshot of Grammarly.com
Type of businessCorporation
FoundedJuly 1, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-01)[1]
HeadquartersSan Francisco
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn
Key peopleBrad Hoover (CEO)
ProductsOnline text editor with grammar checker, spell checker, and plagiarism detection
ServicesProofreading
URLGrammarly.com
Current statusActive

Grammarly is an English language writing-enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009. Grammarly's proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources[3] check more than 250 grammar rules.[4][5][6]

History

The company was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn, in Kiev.[6][7] Brad Hoover, the company's chief executive officer, is an investor with a background in engineering who learned about Grammarly while searching for an automated proofreading tool for his own writing.[7]

Grammarly, Inc, has headquarters in San Francisco. An additional office is in Kiev.[7]

Recognition

In the 2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews, Grammarly won the TopTenReviews Gold Award, with a rating of 8.88. [3][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Grammarly.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  2. ^ "Grammarly.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. 2016-10-07. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
  3. ^ a b "Grammarly – Review". TopTenReviews. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Geeta Padmanabhan (September 21, 2011). "Cool tool". The Hindu. The Hindu Group. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ Lee Chang-sup (May 1, 2012). "English again in New Year's resolution?". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b Cheryl Conner (October 21, 2012). "I Don't Tolerate Poor Grammar". Forbes. Forbes publishing. pp. 1–2. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |magazine= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ a b c Don Tennant. "How Cloud Power Is Improving Written English". IT Business Edge by QuinStreet. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)