Over the past ten years we have witnessed an evolution in web search. The first-generation search engines like AltaVista, Excite, and Yahoo all indexed the web and gave back results primarily based on the words that were on a web page. If you searched for “lemurs�, these engines would look for pages that [...]
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I'm an LA-based Internet unprofessional who has been working on the web since 1996. My current full-time gig is managing a site I founded in 2003, Answerbag.com. I sold Answerbag to InfoSearch Media in early 2006, and they then sold it to Demand Media, so they sign my paychecks now. Before that, I spent some time with Intermix Media (parent of the infamous MySpace) and Yahoo! Games, but the bulk of my 'net experience was at my first startup, Gamers.com, which I started after college back in the Golden Years of the web.
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