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The Shift Towards Universal Search

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Much like the situation for natural text search in the late 90's, there is a new land grab for top search placement for these new media formats (like images, podcast, and video). In fairness, the transition, at least for Google, has been a measured and calculated process.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

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In a CNBC interview a few weeks ago he explained his vision : “We’re building the world’s largest niche, you know, media business. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines. And niche meaning at scale. We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

In a CNBC interview a few weeks ago he explained his vision : “We’re building the world’s largest niche, you know, media business. A metric-driven approach to content generation matches the algorithmic judgment of search engines. And niche meaning at scale. We wanna have a lot of properties with a lotta users on them.

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