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May 15, 2008 12:34 PM PDT

Killing Google

Mark Cuban has an interesting slant on how to beat Google. Buy out the top sites in Google's Index and watch Google flounder:

But what about the Google Index, all the websites that are indexed by Google ? What is it worth to be in the Google Index ? What would you, as a website owner require in order to remove your site from the Google Index and no longer be available when someone does a google search ?

It should just be a matter of dollars and cents and sense, shouldn't it ?

Interesting thought, and a strategy that only a desperate company with billions in the bank could try. Like Microsoft.

Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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by balleyne May 15, 2008 9:33 PM PDT
I don't think it'd work. Read The Long Tail? Google's expertise isn't in indexing the top websites, it's in indexing ALL websites and giving you what's most relevant for your search.



Buying out the short head won't kill the long tail.
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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