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10 Search Engines That Don’t Start With A G, B, Or Y

YoungUpstarts

In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search are indisputably the most widely used.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences. Then, on the customer’s requested date, the company sends a personally styled offering (a Fix) of five items (previously unseen) to the individual to try on in her own home. Katrina herself is equally impressive.

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Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool

abovethecrowd.com

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” This goal – to deliver the highest possible value to the customer – is a key catalyst for UberPool.

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Content Creation is Dead – Long Live Storytelling!

Duct Tape Marketing

Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. As companies started coming online and search engines became the de facto discovery tool for prospective customers, the battle for keyword relevance on SERPs grew.