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<h1>Matt Wells' Career Bio Page</h1>
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<a href=http://web.archive.org/web/19970407013333/http://cs.nmt.edu/>
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</td><td>1996. Won the homepage design contest for the Computer Science Department at <a href=http://www.nmt.edu/>New Mexico Tech</a> with <a href=http://web.archive.org/web/19970407013333/http://cs.nmt.edu/>this site</a>. I created an <a href=/zia.mpg>animated zia</a> for it using BMRT. I did all the drawings myself using Photoshop.
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1997. Created the <b>Artists' Den</b>. Was in the
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Albuquerque Journal (page <a href=/abqnews1.jpg>1</a> and <a href=/abqnews2.jpg>2</a>) in March 1997. Was featured in Yahoo's and Netscape's <i>What's Cool</i> and was a semi-permanent feature on Infoseek's reference page. Was one of the leading art sites at the time. (<a href="http://www.cyrius.com.au/_blog/TEST_-_BCH_Blog_Automation_Test/post/Art/">review 1</a>, <a href="http://members.fortunecity.com/touchon/acad-002.htm">review 2</a> ,
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<a href="http://business.highbeam.com/2872/article-1G1-107605314/openart-forum">review 3</a>)
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<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek>
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1997. Worked at <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoseek>Infoseek</a> for a few years on the core search team with about 7 other engineers, including <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li>Robin Li</a>, the founder of <a href=http://www.baidu.com/>Baidu</a>, the largest search engine in China. I found it amazing how much Infoseek relied on search to feed its website, but yet the core team was so small.
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<a href=http://www.gigablast.com/><img src=/gbrocket.png width=128 height=129></a>
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2000. Founded <a href=http://www.gigablast.com/>Gigablast</a>. Boostrapped with $30k. Developed almost all the code myself. Circa 2006 Gigablast had over 12 billion pages indexed and was the second largest search engine in the world. At one time Gigablast also ranked in the top 2000 most popular websites worldwide. To this date, Gigablast continues to serve millions of queries per day using almost all wind power.
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<a href=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067980/A-Conversation-With-Gigablasts-Matt-Wells><img width=128 height=46 src=/sew.png></a>
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</td><td>2003. Interviewed by
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<a href=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067980/A-Conversation-With-Gigablasts-Matt-Wells>Search Engine Watch</a>
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<a href=/acmqueue.pdf><img src=/acm.png width=128 height=122></a>
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2004. <a href=/acmqueue.pdf>Interview</a> with <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch>Steve Kirsch</a> for the <a href=http://queue.acm.org/>ACM Queue</a>, the official magazine of Association for Computing Machinery.
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<a href=/dator.pdf><img src=/dator.png width=128 height=121></a>
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2004. <a href=/dator.pdf>Interviewed</a> by <a href=http://www.datormagazin.se/>Dator</a>, a Swedish Computer Magazine.
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<a href=/business2.0.pdf><img src=/biz.png width=128 height=157></a>
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2005. <a href=/business2.0.pdf>Interview in Business 2.0</a>.
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<b>Various Links</b>
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<a href=http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gigablast>Techchrunch</a>
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<a href=http://techcrunch.com/2005/07/09/profile-gigablast-blog-search/>Techcrunch</a>
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<a href=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/04/04/17/1942228/how-to-build-a-search-engine>Slashdot</a>
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<a href=http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2063106/Gigablast-Now-Offering-XML-Search-Feeds>SearchEngineWatch</a>
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<a href=/ff2006.doc><img src=/ff.png width=128 height=80></a>
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2006. In the <a href=/ff2006.doc>New Mexico Flying Forty</a>. One of New Mexico's top 40 technology companies by revenue.
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<a href=http://www.nmt.edu/nmt-news/16-2007/2960-blasting-into-the-big-leagues-matt-wells-and-gigablast><img src=/bb.png width=128 height=130></a>
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2007. Interviewed by my Alma Mater, <a href=http://www.nmt.edu/nmt-news/16-2007/2960-blasting-into-the-big-leagues-matt-wells-and-gigablast>New Mexico Tech's Newsletter</a>.
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<a href=http://www.eventguru.com/><img src=/eventguru.png width=128 height=95></a>
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2012. After years of work, launched <a href=http://www.eventguru.com/>Event Guru</a>, the largest search engine for events in the U.S. And it is the only technology to spider the entire web for events. It can read a page like you or me and figure out the events with a decent accuracy. This is a suprisingly hard problem because when you read events from a page, you engage a lot more mental processes than you realize!
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Donated <a href=http://www.jezebelgallery.com/>chandelier from Jezebel Lighting</a> to the Albuquerque Sunport. Creation is almost completed.
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The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qLzoWKp2JHcC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=gigablast&source=bl&ots=JfwmfpIPKW&sig=sXUFaCsUlxhVfrd2cc4kBKif5LY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cbn6UfvJB-6GyQGYwICwAg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwADhQ#v=onepage&q=gigablast&f=false">NSA reviewed Gigablast</a> in its book, "Untangling the Web" which was declassified in 2013 under the Freedom of Information Act.
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