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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

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. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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The "Glo-ver" phase in enterprise apps

deal architect

I don't mean to pick on NetSuite but it is one of the oldest cloud apps vendors - born as it was in 1998. Over 21 years, you would think it would have a fuller global footprint. Especially since it.

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ProductionHUB Helps You Search For Media Production Professionals

YoungUpstarts

Developed in 1998, this vertical B2B and entertainment industry portal has grown to become the world’s largest and most active production community search site and as well as a fast growing freelance network of film, television, video, digital media and live event professionals.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. In effect, they have become the Salesforce.com of the health care vertical.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. Instrument Landing Systems – to help automate landings by giving the aircraft horizontal and vertical guidance. For example, accelerometers-on-a-chip made airbags possible as they were able to detect a crash in progress.

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When to Use Tabbed Navigation and How to Optimize It

ConversionXL

As Luke Wroblewski of Google chronicled years ago, Amazon really pioneered this trend… Luke Wroblewski , Google : “In 1998, the site had two top-level categories: books and music. Album Art Collection is a rather popular example of tabbed navigation… Two things are interesting here… The navigation is vertical vs. horizontal.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia.