VC Cafe
JUNE 26, 2023
In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Finally, cutting edge technologies ought to at least have an impact on greatness, right? 3) What drives your economic engine. They often use words like rigorous, dogged, diligent, precise, fastidious, consistent, accountable and methodical in their corporate lexicon, and are characterized by having a “stop doing” list.
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Andrew Payne
JULY 28, 2014
The Court of Justice of the EU ruled Google had to remove search results linking to a 1998 newspaper article about the foreclosure of his home (due to unpaid debts he later paid). For better or worse, search technology has permanently changed the privacy calculus. It seems arbitrary that some have freedoms and some don’t.
ConversionXL
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.
Up and Running
APRIL 27, 2015
There’s no denying that Bill Gates is a visionary, founding Microsoft in 1975 and monopolizing the tech industry for decades. However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity.
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