When was the genesis for Bbmao and who was involved at the start?
As a post-graduate student in Toronto, I realized that I had many, many ideas about where the Internet could take us in the future, and I was always itching to do something about it. Working at Verity made me interested in Internet search. In particular, I realized that search engines need to interact with users better than they do right now, and that social and collaborative behaviour by users can bring a lot of order to the oceans of information on the Internet. A lot of people began realizing the same thing around that time. And that has led to what is now called Web 2.0 in the industry. Web 2.0 is a new class of websites and services, many of which have a social collaborative aspect. I took a break from work in 2003 to travel extensively in China, and in 2004, I moved to China to bring to fruition my ideas for building a next generation search engine. In the beginning, there was just me writing some code. We got funding last year, and now we have eight staff plus a dog. We did a so
