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November 17, 2009
Shaking My Head at Mark Cuban...
Mark Cuban has suggested that Microsoft simply pay sites to be removed from the Google index. This is his big idea to even the playing field and make search more competitive.
This. simply. will. not. work.
All that will happen is those sites will get less traffic. A LOT less traffic. No one will go to Bing to exclusively search 1,000 sites. The general public doesn't keep up with the politics of search enough to care about that kind of crap. They would just think that Microsoft is being a big evil corporation, and they'd turn on the publishers who removed their sites from Google index.
Perhaps Cuban should stick to getting in trouble with the NBA with his Tweets.
via Gizmodo
Posted by Nathania Johnson on November 17, 2009 11:25 AM
Comments
Roe November 17, 2009 1:15 PM
Agree. That snake oil salesman thinks that everyone is just as stupid as yahoo who bought his crap for 4billion.
Neo November 17, 2009 1:33 PM
this could work...
BUT, Microsoft would have to get the biggest and most visited sites out there to go in on the plan and then they would have to advertise this exclusivity.
Would you still use Google if you knew that the most high quality and reputable sites that you visit and like the most (ie. Nytimes, CNN, facebook, twitter, ebay, amazon, etc) were not going to show up in a Google search?
... it may not get me to give up Google completely, but it sure would get me to use Bing a whole lot more.
simon November 17, 2009 3:28 PM
Mark Cuban
the guy is crazy
what he shoud do is focusing on his team
Henry November 19, 2009 2:42 AM
If you know extraordinary high quality and have websites of reputation you will not search to visit as elephant and present in google the most?
TEwire November 19, 2009 7:48 AM
Clearly the man should be fired, tarred, feathered, run out of town, tied to a small barge and sent out to sea. Sheer idiocy.