History

Even in a digital world, the need for exploration and discovery remains a powerful driver...

Why 1492?

Just as Christopher Columbus embarked on his historic voyage in 1492 to discover new worlds, we created our platform to help you navigate and discover the vast digital territories of the modern web.

Our mission is to provide you with the tools and analytics needed to explore, track and understand the ever-changing digital content landscape, making your own discoveries along the way.

1492.vision

Our journey

From design to innovation, discover the steps that shaped our platform

2023

Genesis of 1492

Two explorers meet, Damien and Sylvain... The idea for 1492 was born from the need to understand what's happening in Google Discover feeds. Named after the historic year of Columbus's voyage, 1492.Vision embodies the spirit of exploration and discovery.

October 2023

Platform launch

After months of development, 1492 was officially launched. A still limited interface, but a focus on data quality and capturing real Google Discover feeds.

Throughout 2024

Core features

Search and analysis in our database, multi-domain comparison, content analysis, visibility trends, article performance, categorization, extraction of significant ngrams and entities. Most of the effort went into the demanding infrastructure and capture reliability.

January 2025

Key features

Addition of entering and leaving domains, providing key insights into algorithm changes. Integration of named entities at the core of our data, giving access to live trends, presented during a Trikaya livestream: a key feature, acclaimed by clients.

March 2025

R&D sharing

Our first alerts on X.com movements, foreshadowing the shift toward creators that would make headlines months later... Also our "Entities everywhere" conference at the FepSem trade show in Marseille, where we unveiled many insights from our R&D.

April 2025

The 1492.Vision substack

Following client requests to more easily follow our monitoring, the substack condenses the latest news. Available in French https://1492vision.substack.com/ and English: https://1492dotvision.substack.com/ subscribe, it's free and packed with insights!

April 2025

Capture capacity

2,200 unique contents every hour
50,000 Discover cards every hour, for French alone

May 2025

The Google Discover weather report

The first of its kind, including internationally! Finally a Google Discover volatility indicator, based on multiple sub-indicators that answers a crucial question: "things moved, is it just my site or was there an update?"

July 2025

Entity bags & more

Our flagship feature since its launch. Unmatched precision in content targeting.
Also, several articles in collaboration with Resoneo, detailing how Google algorithms, Discover and Entities work.

August 2025

Discovery of Google profile pages

A world first. We detailed these new pages, what they bring, their link to user account personalization, how they enable staying in touch with users via Google notifications and more... Major international echo, well before Google officially announced them.

September 2025

Reacteur.com article on the knowledge graph

Major article, fairly technical, detailing the inner workings of Google's KG and what we observed based on a large dataset of Discover articles.

September 2025

Capture capacity

2,700 unique contents every hour
107,000 Discover cards every hour, for French alone

October 2025

Conference at the SEO Summit (Parc des Princes)

A conference "Discover isn't just for big media", emphasizing the opportunities Discover offers to e-commerce sites in particular, or Discover as a complement to traditional SEO.

November 2025

Short links and timestamped entities

New client feature: batch creation of share.google and search.app short links. At the request of clients eager to maximize the impact of the Discover "spark".
Discovery of timestamped entities, another first.

January 2026

Capture capacity

5,000 unique contents every hour
175,000 Discover cards every hour, for French alone...

Today

Continuous innovation

We continue to evolve our platform, helping users discover new territories in the digital landscape through advanced analytics.

Heading towards the future

As we continue our journey, we remain committed to innovation and excellence. Our platform evolves with the digital landscape, ensuring you always have the most advanced tools for content discovery and analysis.

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