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May 19, 2005
Barney on panel at upcoming "Vertical Leap" Vertical Search event
I'll be moderating a panel on Emergeng Categories at the Vertical Leap event, a day of talks and discussions about vertical search sponsored by SD Forum to occur Tuesday, June 28 2005 in San Jose.
From the event announcement:
Search is going Vertical -- vertical search engines are available for local businesses, product & shopping search, travel search, weblog & news search, and search for classified & jobs listings, with more domain-specific search engines debuting every month.So is Vertical Search just some new hype for Yahoo and Google? Or is there real opportunity for new startups to emerge as domain-killer search engines? Will the big players crush these new upstarts, or do they have a shot? And will Microsoft try to “extend and embrace� these new young Internet Turks, in order to LEAP over Y! and G? The answer to these and other burning Internet 2.0 questions can be found at Vertical LEAP, a 1-day special event on vertical search hosted by SDForum and your friendly neighborhood venture capitalists. Join us for a whirlwind tour of the world of vertical search, and an overview of leading search engines in both popular and emerging new markets for domain-specific search.
I am very interested in vertical search. I was a part of Whizbang! Labs, the first company to commercialize information extraction technology capable of crawling millions of websites to extract data to power vertical search engines. We created vertical search engines for jobs and corporate information. It is exciting to see a new generation of companies blossoming now that strong revenue models exist for search. If Whizbang were still around, I think we would have been in a great position today!
Posted by barney at May 19, 2005 12:26 AM
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