"Vertical Search - Show Me The Money!"

MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) Presents:"Vertical Search - Show Me The Money!"
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2005Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Bishop Auditorium, Stanford Business School
* Scott Rafer, President and CEO, Feedster
* Dion Lim, VP Business Development, Simply Hired
* Barney Pell, EIR, Mayfield
* Additional Panelists To Be Announced
Remember the heydays of the first generation Internet search engineslike InfoSeek and AltaVista and then of course, our darling Google?Vertical Search is now one of the hot new topics buzzing around theInternet industry and the investment community today. It refers tospecialized search technologies that focus on narrow niches like aspecific industry such as travel or health or new Web-basedcommunication tools like blogs.
But the big question, as with first generation search, is "Where isthe Money?" Though there is no question that there is value forvertical search, who is willing to pay for it?
For more information visit:http://www.vlab.org/