America Online ---> (acquisition) WebCrawler (U. of Washington), WAIS (WAIS Inc.) |
InfoSeek ---> (the first commercialized web search provider) net search service charged on a pay-per-document basis |
Sequoia Capital ---> (captital venture) Yahoo (Standford U.) |
CMG@Ventures ---> (captital venture) Lycos (Carnegie Mellon U.) |
Microsoft Inc. ---> (licensed) Lycos (CMU) |
KPC & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners ---> (capital venture) Architext Inc. (formed by six Standford graduates) |