Rockstar Consortium US LP et al v. Google Inc

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MOTION to Change Venue by Google Inc. (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order Google Inc's Motion to Transfer Venue, # 2 Index, # 3 Declaration of Abeer Dubey, # 4 Declaration of Sam Stake, # 5 Exhibit 1, # 6 Exhibit 2, # 7 Exhibit 3, # 8 Exhibit 4, # 9 Exhibit 5, # 10 Exhibit 6, # 11 Exhibit 7, # 12 Exhibit 8, # 13 Exhibit 9, # 14 Exhibit 10, # 15 Exhibit 11, # 16 Exhibit 12, # 17 Exhibit 13, # 18 Exhibit 14, # 19 Exhibit 15, # 20 Exhibit 16, # 21 Exhibit 17, # 22 Exhibit 18, # 23 Exhibit 19, # 24 Exhibit 20, # 25 Exhibit 21, # 26 Exhibit 22, # 27 Exhibit 23, # 28 Exhibit 24)(Mann, James)

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WebCrawler's History

WebCrawler Timeline
January 27, 1994 Brian Pinkerton, a CSE student at the University of
Washington, starts WebCrawler in his spare time. At first, WebCrawler
was a desktop application, not a Web service as it is today. WebCrawler
spat out its first Top 25 list on March 15, 1994.
April 20, 1994 WebCrawler goes live on the Web with a database
containing pages from just over 4000 different Web sites. Here's the
announcement to the UW seminar that was discussing the Web. About a
month and a half later, I announced WebCrawler on
comp.infosystems.announce, the Usenet group where new Web sites were
announced.
November 14th, 1994 WebCrawler serves its 1 millionth query (for
better or worse): NUCLEAR WEAPONS DESIGN AND RESEARCH.
December 1, 1994 WebCrawler acquires two sponsors, DealerNet and
Starwave. Both companies provided money to help keep WebCrawler
operating. WebCrawler was fully supported by advertising on October 3,
1995 but maintained a strict separation between the advertising and the
search results.
June 1, 1995 America Online acquires WebCrawler. At the time of the
acquisition, AOL had fewer than 1 million users, and no capability to
access the Web. It was believed that AOL's resources could help make
the most of WebCrawler's future.
September 4, 1995 Spidey is born. In the first of WebCrawler's many
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design changes, we moved to a new look, with Spidey as the mascot.
Spidey took on many personalities over the years and exemplified the fun,
lighthearted spirit that WebCrawler strove for.
April, 1996 WebCrawler extends its functionality from pure search to
include the best human-edited guide for the Web: GNN Select. Formerly
known as the Whole Internet Catalog, GNN Select was the editorial
product of a small team of Internet-savvy researchers headed by Abbot
Chambers.
April 1, 1997 Excite acquires WebCrawler. AOL sold WebCrawler to
the Mountain View, CA company Excite. WebCrawler was initially
supported by its own dedicated team within Excite, but that was eventually
abandoned in favor of running both WebCrawler and Excite on the same
back end.
2001 InfoSpace acquires WebCrawler. Excite, now Excite@Home, went
belly up. In the bankruptcy, Infospace acquired WebCrawler. Today
Infospace runs WebCrawler as a meta-search engine. And they've given
Spidey a new name and turned him purple!
back to Brian's page

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