Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 100

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

There will be some great opportunities to invest in companies that take existing data and run algorithms over these streams of data to deliver better and more targeted advertising, personalized recommendations and search, and better overall services for end-users. However, data revenue cannot increase without applications that drive usage.

Jordan 60

Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2013

It’s also worth noting that the more popular a post the better chance it stands to rank higher in subsequent related searches, which only serves to make it more popular. It’s an essential tactic for developing a powerful content strategy, targeting pay per click advertising campaigns and improving search engine optimization.

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Semantic SEO Audio Campaign 61

Eric Friedman

MAY 5, 2009

Instead of an “under construction” page or 404 error, AdSense for domains provides links, search results, advertisements and other content. To do this, we use semantic technology targeted to the domain name. You earn revenue when users interact with the ads on your site. Landing pages end up looking like this.

Semantic 60

Semantic Programming Advertising Revenue 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

An eight-time author with a flair for building successful businesses, Julia grew her writing agency, Express Writers, to a remarkable $5 million in revenue with a team of over 100 staff members. She's an eight time author and built a writing agency express writers to $5 million in revenue and over 100 on staff. Those are not evergreen.

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SEO Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Video 61

Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

– Would love to see revenue/business models re-enter the social media conversation. 3:30pm – *Cue self-serving segment* Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web. Let’s gang up on him and force him to answer revenue questions. It’s the perfect way to kick off your SXSW adventure.

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Iran Semantic Austin Algorithm 79

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

" Given all of the discussion about Microsoft being dead, I must say that while they are still a distant third in the search space, they did make a brilliant move in acquiring TellMe. Think about it – when you leave home, you grab your keys, wallet, and cell phone.

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North America Semantic Africa Acquisition 60

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Unscatter.com will be a unified search and social client portal. From the link: Oh, and what was the company? Shocking, I know.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month). No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. Obviously, traffic found on ecommerce sites is the prime example of this and search traffic is a close second, but increasingly Pinterest is proving itself to be a massive source of high-converting traffic. The rest is just semantics. But they do $50B in revenue.

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Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. With a Taste Engine, you don’t search by what you’re looking for, you search by what you like.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Edit Room is a web app that lets you assemble content, mark it up semantically, and then use fast, intuitive tools to design flexible HTML prototypes that can be presented and tested, and are even clean enough to be used as a kick-start for further development. Search on Smashing Magazine. - select -. Newsletter. JavaScript.

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Web Mobile Software Review Design 89

ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. You need to track the right revenue goals. Search dropdown. Jakub Linowski: Searching for Repeating Conversion Patterns: What Can Multiple Tests Tell Us? 10K / 1M = 1%. Are both created equal?

San Antonio 86

San Antonio Metrics B2B Analytics 86

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. To everyone who has an idea search your contacts for technical people and spin your ideas and user stories with them. Semantic Webber (2010-06-21) # Great read! If you can do that like you described it you will find a programmer.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84