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Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-outside-the-box dept.

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?"

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  1. wow, a whole million? by digitalsushi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll give the top 1000 folks on slashdot who eat bread a nickel never to eat it again.

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  2. Motivation? by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What TFA is short on is any sense of motivation on Mark Cuban's part. Why does he want to do this? Did Google frighten him when he was a baby?

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  3. Why? by cronco · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does the dude have stock at Microsoft? Or what's it to him?

  4. illegal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The phrase tortious interference comes to mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference)

  5. In Soviet Russia, Google.ru eliminates Mark Cuban! by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You take the million, fine ... but what about next year? Do you get another million, or was this a one-shot deal, in which case a million is nowhere near enough to permanently remove a top-1000 site.

    Plus, what's to stop them from making another site with a similar name, and making the bing link redirect to the new site? New site is now at the top of both, with an extra $1m in their pocket.