Is there anything more fun than riding about, developing your hair, pledging a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and ruminating how to exchange the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?
Best search ? Too immanent. Better monetization ? After the fact. Best User Interface ? Will we cognise it when we fancy it ? A newfangled and dissimilar search ? Semantic ? Human powered ? We won”t know till we know.
But what about the Google Index, all the websites that are indexed by Google ? What is it deserving to be in the Google Index ? What would you, as a website owner require in order to take your site from the Google Index and no longer be uncommitted when someone does a google search ?
It should simply be a matter of dollars and cents and sense, shouldn’t it ?
How many websites would have to recuse themselves from the Google Index before Google Search was negatively touched on ?
Mahalo.com intends it demands to sustain the 25k most common search terms in order to be successful. What would encounter if MicroSoft or Yahoo or a MicroHoo attended the 5 top results for the top 25k searches and compensated them to allow the Google Index ?
A theoretic maximum of 125k sites, but with overlap, in all probability closer to 100k or less, times how much per site on average ?
The math starts out to pay back interesting. At $1,000 per site median times 100k sites, thats only when $ 1 Billion Dollars. The distribution would plain favour the bigger sites, indeed of that billion dollars, would the top 1k sites get hold of 500k each and the resting 99k parted the rest ?
Kicked in the stakes, why stop at $ 1 Billion Dollars ? Would the top 1k most inspected sites accept a coolheaded $1mm each, plus a committment from MicroSoft or Yahoo to labor traffic through their search engines to more than make up up for the turned a loss Google Traffic. After all, one time consumers realised that Google no longer had valid search results for the top 25k searchs, that traffic would most belike go to MicroSoft and Yahoo.
And why we are at it, why not ask that these 100k sites switch from Googles Publisher Network to Yahoo’s or MicroSofts ? It would start up to take in backward the $1 Billion compensated out very apace.
On top of that, in order to grease the skids even further, why not make out publicising credits to the sites that exchanged off Google ? Its delicate dollars, that would sweeten the pot and take more traffic.
IN essence, its no dissimilar that any other content aggregation play. Its paying for content. But, It would accept some heavy ones to consent it and visit if it turned. Still, without question, every search engine has some number of core sites, that when removed from its index , destabilises the value of its search.
The question is how many ? What would it bed to get down that number of sites to move around Google off and rest off, and would the traffic created as users switch from Google more than compensate for the cost ?
Or would Google know the risk and leap in and offer up more to websites to rest ?
For certain would be interesting to chance out.
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