Independence Day
It’s a holiday here in the US, but I like to remember this day 8 years ago when everything changed in the search engine industry. Back on July 4, 2000, Yahoo! announced they were replacing their secondary search provider Inktomi with a young up-start search engine called Google. Ha. This came as a shock as the best search engine the previous two years was Inktomi-based HotBot. Industry “insiders” wondered what in the world was Yahoo! thinking moving from the best search database in the world to a virtual “unknown”. Google would gain control of the search market and never look back.