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Beating Google?

Mark Cuban

Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google? Better search? Too subjective. Better monetization? After the fact. Better User Interface? Will we know it when we see it? A new and different search? Semantic? Human powered? We won’t know till we know. But what about the Google Index — all the Web sites that are indexed by Google? What is it worth to be in the Google Index?

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