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"He said that he liked Ask Jeeves because it could offer services different from those of rivals, including No. 1 Google, No. 2 Yahoo and No. 3 MSN. He did not specify how he planned to overtake the leaders in search, but he said that it's a day-to-day process that will involve combining IAC's many resources."

All he needs is a disruptive algorithm or a new idea. Look at blogs, Vizog.com gets all of its traffic from blogs, somedays only 200-300 visitors somedays 40k-50k, 0 from search engines. Blogs were nowhere 4 years ago, yet they're a major source of traffic now.

All he needs is that single killer idea to ensure his traffic independant of search engines and this video programming may be it, or some combination of askJeeves and this stuff.
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 10/06/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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