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Re:New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet by gcheong on Sunday March 14, 2010 @03:42PM (#1191173)
Who's technical brilliance? Sergy and Brin's got them a better search engine, but wasn't it the AdWords idea that originated at Goto.com that got them to the Google they are today?
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Re:New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet by tsally on Sunday March 14, 2010 @03:48PM (#1191186)
Adwords without Pagerank is useless. The pay per click and auction mechanisms for Adwords are innovative in a sense, but Adwords is not successful because of its technical implementation. Adwords are what people pay for in a literal sense, but the source of Google's money is their search implementation.

EDIT: At this point their brand is also a source of Google's money. Today you need both to compete in search.

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Re:New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet by coryl on Sunday March 14, 2010 @03:47PM (#1191185)
Good artists copy, great artists steal?
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