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Search engine acquisitions in 2016-2018

April 23, 2019 - by Chris - Leave a Comment

What am I missing? Acquirer Startup Year Snippet Google Undecidable Lab 2016 creates tools that can help turn an online search into an actual purchase eBay Corrigon 2016 searching and …

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My new site – searchnews.org

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 - by Chris - Leave a Comment

Come visit my new site: searchnews.org.  A site for people who work on search engines. Check out the latest news: search engine news. Check out the job board: search engine …

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Search Engine History – Web Search Before Google

June 16, 2017 - by Chris - Leave a Comment

A recent article called Search Engine History – Web Search Before Google Although it didn’t have a public face (as far as I remember), I think of IBM’s Clever as the …

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TIL why A9 is called A9

October 10, 2014 - by Chris - Leave a Comment

The name A9 comes from ALGORITHMS (‘A’ + 9 other letters). Guess I should have known this already.  

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Craigslist added something cool to their search!

June 6, 2013 - by Chris - Leave a Comment

I can’t believe it!  Craigslist added auto-complete (or auto-suggest or whatever you want to call it) to their query box.  Start typing in a search and it’ll suggest queries, just …

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