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Guess What? Google Fears the Next 'Google'

Posted March 05, 2010 8:57 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

There are millions of entrepreneurs who want to come up with the next Google. Maybe you are one of them. You almost certainly know one. Guess what? Google is afraid of you — haunted that the same disruptive forces which transformed the company from a garage project by two kids maxing out their credit cards into a global superpower in 10 short years could render them irrelevant. Just like that.

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Re: Guess What? Google Fears the Next 'Google'

03/06/2010 12:23 PM

Its been here a while already: http://clusty.com/

It haz a very handy feature that puts the rezults in catagoriez on the left. Makes it way eazier to get to wut youre looking for.

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03/06/2010 6:31 PM

Its good that they see this, but I think it also gives something away. I think Google knows that their product has some shortcomings or faults that they are aware of and fear that an upstart company may recognize it and take advantage of it.

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03/06/2010 7:14 PM

I think more than recognizing any faults it's

being able to anticipate the direction of information technology such as cloud computing, the operating system, mobile web apps & how to make moneny at it

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