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Re:Wouldn't it be fun to build your own Google? by desdiv on Thursday December 11, 2014 @05:44AM (#8734107)
While Cuil failed, it only cost them about $30 million to do most of what Google does.

They raised ~$30 million in two rounds, but their valuation was at $200 million by round two. I agree with your point though; the cost to develop a good search engine is dirt cheap compared to the value it brings.

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Re:Wouldn't it be fun to build your own Google? by Animats on Thursday December 11, 2014 @01:22PM (#8736262)
"Valuation" by whom? They had no revenue, no revenue model, no VC would give them additional funding, and Google didn't buy them out. On September 17, 2010 at 1 PM, all the employees were told the company was shutting down.

Google did hire the CEO and Anna Patterson to keep them from doing another search engine.

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