Yahoo! is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
Richard "Rich" Skrenta is a computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the web search engine blekko.
AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo! and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site.
Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Microsoft Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Steven Shih Chen is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the cofounders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having cofounded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014. In March 2019 he became advisor to Theta, a new peer to peer video streaming network that uses blockchain technology.
Business ChaCha is from Patherwa Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. It is a local search engine that provided free, Car, Bolero, Driver, Electrician, Plumber, Rajmistri, Halwai, Tent House, Marriage House, Hotels, Painter, kabadiwala, Hospitals, Schools, Meson, Garments, vastralaya, beautician shop makeup parlour salon tea stall building materials shop Pan stall shop vegetable and fruit shop stationery shop all type of shop allall kinds of mart, shopping cart, Shopping Bazaar,nd many more things from all over India. It's real time company, founded in October 2020 by Arjun Gupta from Patherwa Kushinagar Uttar Pradesh.
François Bourdoncle is founder and Chief Strategist of the search engine company Exalead. He is currently president of FB&Cie.
Mahalo.com was a web directory and Internet-based knowledge exchange launched in May 2007 by Jason Calacanis. It differentiated itself from algorithmic search engines like Google and Ask.com, as well as other directory sites like DMOZ and Yahoo! by tracking and building hand-crafted result sets for many of the currently popular search terms. President Jason Rapp exited the company in September, 2012.
Anna Patterson is a software engineer. She contributed to search engines and artificial intelligence at Google, and co-founded Cuil.
Cuil was a search engine that organized web pages by content and displayed relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. Cuil said it had a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008. Cuil's servers were shut down on September 17, 2010, with later confirmations the service had ended.
SearchMe was a visual search engine based in Mountain View, California. It organized search results as snapshots of web pages — an interface similar to that of the iPhone's and iTunes's album selection.
Like.com was a price comparison service website that billed itself as a "visual search engine for products".
Qwiki was a New York City based startup automated video production company. Qwiki released an iPhone app that automatically turns the pictures and videos from a user's camera roll into movies to share. The company's initial product, an iPad application that created video summaries of over 3 million search terms, was downloaded more than 3 million times and named by Apple as the best "Search and Reference" application of 2011.
Babak "Bobby" Yazdani is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.
Proximic is a platform that provides real-time data services for contextual data for online advertisers and agencies. The company is based in Palo Alto, with research and development facilities in Munich. The company's CEO Philipp Pieper co-founded the company with mathematician Thomas Nitsche. Thomas Nitsche and Elmar Henne, Proximic's chief architect, developed the Mephisto Chess Computer. Chief Scientist is Louis Monier, founder of the AltaVista search engine.
This page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the Archie search engine in 1990. It is complementary to the history of web search engines page that provides more qualitative detail on the history.
Brian Acton is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. Acton is the executive chairman of the Signal Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018.
Salim Ismail is a Canadian serial entrepreneur, angel investor, author, speaker, and technology strategist. He is the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and lead author of Exponential Organizations. In March 2017 he was named to the board of the XPRIZE Foundation.
MIRA BEAUTY is an American e-commerce company based in San Francisco, California, US. It was co-founded by Stanford programmers Jay Hack and Brandon Garcia in 2017. The company initially launched as the world's first search engine for beauty and later expanded to product recommendation, reviews and online shopping.
