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Re:Peter Thiel Has New Initiative To Pay Kids To "Stop Out O... by johnglasgow on Monday September 27, 2010 @08:48PM (#1734159)
He lost a few points in my book for saying new startups will not be able to take on the big tech companies.

Imagine if the founders of Google took his advice.

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Re:Peter Thiel Has New Initiative To Pay Kids To "Stop Out O... by nazariusk on Monday September 27, 2010 @10:14PM (#1734319)
Portals do not a tech company make.

Yahoo called itself a media company, and many others emulated their all-in-one portal model with search as an after thought.

Google focused only on their index and their PageRank algorithm to provide the best intent based search possible.

They weren't in a contest with the tech companies. They were just a feature to Yahoo way back when.

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