# Steve Harmon: Record

> Steve Harmon's record spans early Internet research, venture investing, Oingo / Applied Semantics, Google AdSense, public-market technology analysis, CNBC, books, and platform-shift research.

## Oingo / Applied Semantics / AdSense

Steve Harmon led a venture investment in Oingo, later renamed Applied Semantics. Oingo developed meaning-based search and contextual advertising technology and launched a product called AdSense. Google acquired Applied Semantics in 2003.

Independent sources:
- [Google: Google Acquires Applied Semantics](https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2004/04/google-acquires-applied-semantics.html)
- [UCLA: Eytan Elbaz biography, including Oingo AdSense](https://www.cal.cs.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cal=cal2&cf=cal&cmd=showevent&d=4&de=1&id=1264121560-24031-1&lc=calweek&m=02&ncals=&ncmd=calweek&sa=0&sb=0&set=1&sib=1&sort=e%2Cm%2Ct&swe=1&tf=0&token=&ws=0&y=2010)
- [All American Speakers: Steve Harmon biography](https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/453594/Steve-Harmon)

## Internet analysis

Harmon began publishing independent Internet analysis in the 1990s and built an early Internet stock index. Archived 1999 articles show his byline, Internet-company analysis, and contemporaneous CBS MarketWatch recognition.

- [InternetNews archive: Steve Harmon, July 1999](https://www.internetnews.com/it-management/isdex-up-while-dow-nasdaq-slightly-down/)

## Books

Steve Harmon wrote *Zero Gravity: Riding Venture Capital from High-Tech Start-Up to Breakout IPO*, published by Bloomberg Press in 1999. A second edition followed.

- [Open British National Bibliography: Zero Gravity](https://obnb.uk/p10756118-zero-gravity-riding-venture-capital-from-high-tech-start-up-to-breakout-ipo)

## Current work

- [Blueshift](https://blueshift.world/)
- [Flow Information Systems](https://flowinfo.co/)