Bob Truel is a computer programmer. He met

Rich Skrenta Richard J. Skrenta Jr. (born June 6, 1967) is an American computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the web search engine blekko.Arrington, Michael (2008-01-02). "The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko". TechCrunch, 2 Jan ...

in ninth grade in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania and has since co-founded several

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

ventures with him and others, including

DMOZ DMOZ (from ''directory.mozilla.org'', an earlier domain name, stylized in lowercase in its logo) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory ...

with Bryn Dole, Chris Tolles, and Jeremy Wenokur in 1998, Newhoo in 1998,

Topix.net Topix was an American Internet media company. Topix LLC, the controlling company, had its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Topix began as a news aggregator" which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. In the last few years, Topix ...

with Tom and Michael Markson in 2002, and search engine

blekko Blekko, trademarked as blekko (lowercase), was a company that provided a web search engine with the stated goal of providing better search results than those offered by Google Search, with results gathered from a set of 3 billion trusted webpa ...

with Michael Markson and Bryn Dole in 2007.

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