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Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google
rsmiller510 writes "Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1,000 sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft. But could such a plan ever work, and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google?"
Be sure you understand the consequences before you opt out of Google forever.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Yes, someone really should have a stern talking to of the CEO of Microsoft, Mark Cuban. ~
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I guess I should file this under Mark Cuban's plan to defeat Barack Obama, Mark Cuban's plan to dominate basketball, Mark Cuban's plan to dominate HD television content, and Mark Cuban's plan to destroy theatrical motion picture distribution.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Not to be confused with "Tortoise interference", which severely disrupted the 2009 hare-racing world championship.
They don't block the search for Mavericks suck?
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You know, because 10 minutes after they left the Google index, they're not top-1000 sites anymore.
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Unless the top 1,000 sites happen to be, by odd math, shady viagra sales, knockoff Rolex retailers, and spammers.
In which case, go right ahead, Mark! We're behind you all the way!
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
Umm, he owns HDNet AND he sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo to become a billionaire.
1 million in a coffee break? At first I thought this was an exaggeration, but then I ran the numbers. Amazon had 5,449 million USD in revenue last quarter, so that's about $60mil/day, or 1 million every 24 minutes (obviously this assumes a flat time distribution which is clearly not true, but lets keep going). A 24 minute coffee break is a bit excessive, but not completely out of the question. Once you take the non-averaged distribution into account, you can probably make a million in a 5-8 minute coffee break.
The American Airlines Center where the Mavs play seats about 20,000. There are 82 games in a basketball season, meaning the Mavs will have about half that at home. Let's round it to 40 games. If they make the playoffs, that number could potentially double, so doing a little basic math here ... yeah ... I don't see any reason to expect them to be in the playoffs, let alone have home court advantage, so we'll keep the game total at 40.
20,000 seats times 40 games is 800,000 seats. $1 billion / 800k = $1250 per seat per game.
My suggestion for Google's response: Buy every seat to every Mavs home game for a year. Pay people $1000 each to go to the game and root for whoever the Mavs are playing that night, while wearing Google t-shirts.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
or Taurus Indifference, which is what most people have been feeling towards Ford since about 1999.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Before Microsoft tries to take over from the most successful search engine in the world they really need to get a better name. Can you really imagine youself using "bing" as a verb in mixed company?
The person who came up with that name must be the same one who thought it was a good idea to sell devices that allow you to "squirt" pictures of your kids.
The barber is a woman!
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I can't [be bothered to] find longer list, but I remember a top-100 list of Google searches that included "Google.com" as one of those searches.
If you type "Google" into Google you will break the internet.
Wow! Look who the first result is for!?!? Mark Cuban's teams website! Shame Shame!!
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You don't need a search engine. You need a nameserver.
Cuban did just offer them a million dollars...
The reason he makes an offer like this is that he can rest secure in the knowledge that NO ONE will ever take him up on it. It's a publicity stunt.
He thinks he's thrown down a gauntlet to Google and presented them with a threat which they must now look at Very Seriously. Meanwhile, Google board members are suffering from minor asphyxiation because they are laughing so hard.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that Google just finished a mock castle wall on their campus, with a cardboard cutout of Cuban standing below in full Arthurian regalia. Google employees would be encouraged to spend their breaks sitting at the top of the castle wall and blowing raspberries and making odd reference to hamsters and elderberries.
"Now go, or I shall taunt you a second time!"
In the interests of property damage and humane treatment of animals, their trebuchet will probably be limited to throwing hamburgers rather than whole cows.
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Maybe a better analysis:
Mark Cuban was sitting around one day smoking something and wondered, "How can I prove that I am really, really stupid?"
Oh, I know. Wow! I've got it. Microsoft could pay a billion dollars to prove to everyone that it can't compete, that it has to pay to get results. Why the advertising alone would be worth 50 billion. Everyone would associate Microsoft with puking.
maybe their search engine is powered by Puppy juice
Nope, by pigeons.
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Such problems, to be the victim of ones own success. :)
But I guess it would suck if your competitor could name their product after your company and actually get away with it on grounds of ubiquity.
Who is Mark Cuban? I cannot seem to find him via Google...
Is there room in your world view for the possibility that most people do not have a price, and are not for sale? Not everyone is a ravenous consumer out grubbing for every thin dime they can get their hands on... some people actually choose the businesses they patronize because they respect them and wish to support their ongoing operation.
Agreed, I firmly believe in your statement. However, I could shall we say be "persuaded" to reject it in favor of his world view, if he makes it worth my while.
Remove the top 1000 sites from Google, and another top 1000 will replace them.
You're just perpetuating the cycle of indexing.
Use Google and the terrorists win.
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Unless the top 1,000 sites happen to be, by odd math, shady viagra sales, knockoff Rolex retailers, and spammers.
In which case, go right ahead, Mark! We're behind you all the way!
Ah, but what if Mark wants to get behind you and go all the way, too? Are you sure you're up for that? Especially with all that Viagra around...
I imagine there are lots of people that would pay a million dollars to not show up on Drudge.
Imperial.
Metric "butt loads" use the proper spelling - butte loauds.
Though I doubt that life would be very fulfilling without work.
I'm not sure which, but your definition for one of 'life', 'fulfilling', or 'work' is out of whack.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
I'm imagining Dr Evil's pinky going to the corner of his mouth... How about one gajillion jillion dollars?
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This isn't a bug. It's a feature. The first time a specific search is run on bing, it quickly returns random garbage. Simultaneously, the bing servers run the same search on google and stores the first few pages of results. The second time the search is entered into bing, it returns the google results, slightly reordered.
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They ought to change title to
Mark Cuban's plan to kill top 1000 web sites
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