Remarkably, none of the speakers (even Garrett Gruener, who would co-found Ask Jeeves three years later) directly predicted search as the killer app of the future. Mining Google Groups' vast Usenet archive is a great way to uncover informal history...
Garrett Gruener, with venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage it's about databases publishing. It's a gold mine if you're looking for informal history, particularly of events and milestones related to the Net.
Jeeves was the brainchild of venture capitalist Garrett Gruener and technologist David Warthen. Gruener and Warthen thought P.G. Ask Jeeves Web Properties Story http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/wp_story.html The official corporate history of Ask Jeeves.
Jeeves was the brainchild of venture capitalist Garrett Gruener and technologist David Warthen. Gruener and Warthen thought P.G. Ask Jeeves Web Properties Story http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/wp_story.html The official corporate history of Ask Jeeves.
