To all,

This week I have the task of thinking or products that my have been ahead of its time, kind of like the Apple iPad that was ahead of its time and had to be pushed back to be successful on its launch. When thinking about this I immediately thought about search engines that we all use on a daily basis. We all know Google and how it works and all of its goodness it provides, but I also remember a search engine that led to the creation of Google. Askjeeves.com was definitely ahead of its time. It actually included many of the techniques that later made their way into Google like semantic search and even ranking web pages by hyperlinks which we all know is Google's search sauce if you will. We loved it for about a year but the only problem was the technology wasn't that good in those days and therefore making it ahead of its time. 

I would like to hear thoughts or feedback as to other products I didn't mention.

Thank you and have a great day.

Josh Newton