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August 16, 2007 by jack petrie.
CresaPartners recently hosted the July 26, 2007 iBreakfast panel discussion on “Search Opens Up”. Here is a quick rundown….
Is there still a way to profit from Search? Experts say just 1% of this market is worth a billion. This recent iBreakfast lined up contenders for the next wave of Search. And there are plenty…..
Can newcomers really take on Google?
New companies have figured out a host of ways that Google can be improved - from the quality of search to the relevance of the ads. The biggest leaps are: Natural Language Search - where the engine understands concepts rather than just keywords and delivers smarter results. But there is more and experts see a host of new opportunites opening up from:
Panelists included:
Hakia, Inc.
Melek Pulatkonak is the Chief Operating Officer at Hakia, Inc., the Web’s first meaning based search engine. Hakia is a NY-based company with major VC-backing that offers Web 3.0 search based on a system that understands meaning and not just keywords. They believe advanced, high-value searches will depend on this difference.
Guidester
Joe Chin has been CEO of Guidester, Inc. since co-founding the company, originally known as Decidia, Inc., in early 2000. After leading Decidia through its initial growth as an enterprise business, he repositioned it as a paid search company in 2005 and rebranded it as Guidester, Inc. Since the rebrand, Chin has leveraged his 15 years of Internet and entrepreneurial experience to oversee Guidester’s strategic direction and manage its day-to-day operations.
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen is an internationally renowned search expert and author of “The Google Legacy.” He sees major opportunities in social search, human intermediated search and smarter meaning-based search.
ThinkSeer
Wil Reynolds is the founder of ThinkSeer. Over the past 9 years, Wil has dedicated himself to doing two things well: driving traffic to sites from search engines and analyzing the impact that traffic has on the bottom line of companies. Wil’s career began at a web marketing agency in 1999, where he spearheaded the SEO strategies for companies like Barnes & Noble, Disney, Harman Kardon, Debeers, Doubleclick, Hotjobs, and Mercedes Benz USA (to name a few). Although the internet bubble burst, Wil’s passion for web marketing has always been strong. Wil founded SEER Interactive, a Philadelphia-based SEO firm in 2002.
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