When Larry and Sergey first met, they didn’t like each other much. In the summer of 1995, Larry Page was considering a transfer to Stanford …

Summary Gary Flake has been involved with search technology ever since he got turned on to this particular field in college. In this wide-ranging discussion, …

Summary If you’ll remember back to the chapter episode on the early search engines and Yahoo, I said that it’s hard to pin down exactly …

Summary: Steve Kirsch is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs we’ve been lucky enough to speak to on this show. Going back to the 1980s, …

Summary: Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the …

Summary: Danny Sullivan is generally acknowledged as THE expert on the search industry (www.searchengineland.com). Danny first got his start coving search all the way back in …

Summary: George Bell was the CEO of Excite.com, took that pioneering search engine public, and became the CEO of Excite@Home when he oversaw that major …

Summary: Yahoo became the web’s first truly great company, and in this episode, we examine why. Turning to advertising as a business model, Yahoo was …

  Summary: As the early web grows, the explosion of content and websites creates chaos. Early search engines are among the most popular sites on …