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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by amelius on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:05AM (#14386551)
> Whatever ends up killing Google, if anything, won't be an alternative search engine where you type something in a textbox and get results.

Killing another search engine is exactly how Google got big.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by randomsearch on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:13AM (#14386733)
There was room for a much better search engine back then.

There isn't anymore. It needs to be fundamentally different.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by sjg007 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:20AM (#14387667)
I think Facebook could do it.
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