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Bill Gross (fl. 2000s) is an American business manager.

He founded the business incubator Idealab in March, 1996, and serves as the company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He is also credited as the creator of the Sponsored Search model of search advertising where advertisers pay when their ad is clicked.

Gross serves on the boards of numerous companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. He received his B.S. (1980) in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

One company founded by Gross, GoTo.com, Inc., was the first company to successfully provide an Internet search engine which relied upon sponsored search results and pay-per-click advertisements. Goto.com was later renamed Overture Services Inc. and was then acquired by Yahoo! to provide their Yahoo! Search Marketing products.

Another Gross company Energy Innovations is working on development of a rooftop concentrated photovoltaic solar collector for flat-roofed commercial buildings. They completed the worlds largest corporate solar installation at Google's headquarters in 2006. 2006] [1]

In November 2001 Gross defaulted on a $50 million personal loan he had taken from the Bank of America to invest in Idealab. In March 2006 the board of directors of Idealab voted to purchase the loan from the bank, protecting Gross from bankruptcy. Gross's efforts to use his majority ownership position in Idealab to bail out his personal finances were the subject of a minority shareholder lawsuit filed in 2002[2] Court documents filed by the plaintiffs allege various abuses of corporate funds including reimbursing Gross for business use of a Gulfstream personal jet.[3] On June 27, 2003, Superior Court Judge Charles W. McCoy, Jr. dismissed all significant claims against Idealab. 2003[4]

In 2004 Bill Gross created the SNAP search engine which became quite popular in 2006 after SNAP launched a new hyperlink previewer, Snap Shots, was released.

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Yahoo! Search Marketing

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William H. Gross is an American financial manager and investment author.

He was born in Middletown, Ohio, and graduated from Duke University. He served in the Navy, and earned an MBA from UCLA.
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Business incubators are organizations that support the entrepreneurial process, helping to increase survival rates for innovative startup companies. Entrepreneurs with feasible projects are selected and admitted into the incubators, where they are offered a specialized menu of
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Idealab (formerly known as idealab!) is a technology incubator — possibly the most famous business incubator of the dot-com era. It is based in Pasadena, California.

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Idealab was founded by Bill Gross in March 1996.
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Search Engine Marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet Marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in the Search Engine result pages (SERPs).
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California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. Caltech maintains a strong emphasis on the natural sciences and engineering.
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Art Center College of Design (commonly referred to as Art Center) is a private college located in Pasadena, California. It is one of the leading graphic and industrial design colleges in the world.
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Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. or less commonly, S.B. or Sc.B. from the Latin Scientiæ Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years (see below).
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Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of principles of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing ( searchmarketing.yahoo.com ) is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo!.

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Pay per click (PPC) is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser's website.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing ( searchmarketing.yahoo.com ) is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo!.

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Yahoo! Inc.

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Key people Jerry Yang, CEO, Chief Yahoo! and Co-founder
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Yahoo! Search Marketing ( searchmarketing.yahoo.com ) is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo!.

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A solar collector is a device for extracting the energy of the sun directly into a more usable or storable form.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing ( searchmarketing.yahoo.com ) is a keyword-based "Pay per click" or "Sponsored search" Internet advertising service provided by Yahoo!.

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