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Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google

By Michael Becker | Published: November 13, 2009
This smacks of car­tel, but only if the pub­lish­ers work together to start charg­ing for the right to index their con­tent. If they did it sep­a­rately, it would just be smart busi­ness — find­ing a way to charge for their online content. “New York Times, only avail­able on Bing.” The hor­ror, the horror! Of course, it would [...]
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In which the author summarizes the authority-based tweet debate and then finds something new to write about

By Michael Becker | Published: December 30, 2008
Well, the issue of authority-based search­ing on Twitter is here to stay, even though Loic Le Meur, the guy who started all of this by ask­ing for some sort of author­ity search fea­ture on his blog, has amended his opin­ion. He points out now that “author­ity” was a poor word choice that resulted from the [...]
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A decade of Google

By Michael Becker | Published: September 7, 2008
It was about this time of the year in 2000, the heady days before 9/11, before down­load­ing .mp3s was really ille­gal. I was just start­ing col­lege and hav­ing my first real expe­ri­ences with fast Internet service.
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