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...company that was a subsidiary of Dow Jones. Even then, Li says, he was "intrigued with search," long before it became the hugely powerful, money-spinning machine that it is today. At IDD he developed an algorithm that ranked the popularity of various websites. He then got recruited by Infoseek, a company that had developed one of the first search engines in the mid-'90s - only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus. (Yes, the Mouse House could have been Google before Google.) So in 1999, he and a friend did what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs...
...lessees of GM's EV-1 sports coupe are organizing on the Internet. Meanwhile the auto lobby is working on Governor GRAY DAVIS and California legislators. The wild card: a group of Silicon Valley types who embrace the clean machines. As EV-1 driver STEVEN KIRSH, founder of Infoseek, put it last week, "The problem with electric vehicles is lack of product, not demand...
Bankers are quick to defend the trend, noting that new- and old-economy industries are colliding as the world goes online. Disney buying Infoseek isn't cross industry, they argue. It's all media. Ditto AOL and Time Warner. O.K., but broadening the definition hasn't helped Disney execs better understand the Internet company it bought for $1.6 billion. The Mouse refocused its prize acquisition yet again last week. And while AT&T and its recent quarry, cable operator MediaOne, are both in the data-transmission business, it is a leap to believe the phone guys can manage cable assets...
...TRIAL GRANTED. TO PATRICK NAUGHTON, 34, ex-Infoseek honcho convicted last month of possessing cyber child porn; in Los Angeles. An appeals court ruled parts of federal child-porn law unconstitutional. Retrial is set for March...
...GOOGLE.COM With sites such as Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite constantly beefing themselves up into the online equivalent of mega-malls, it's refreshing to find a search engine that does nothing but search. And search well. Google's award-winning, commonsense approach nearly always seems to come up with exactly what you're looking...