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cjoh on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo Axis

When I worked at ask Jeeves, we thought a browser toolbar was how we were going to beat google, too. In 2001.

ktizo on May 24, 2012 | [–]

Nahh, you beat Google by atomising, securing and crowdsourcing search with open ranking algorithms that users can edit and share to serve as online agents. And you do it before Google, or at the very least better.

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