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QUOTE(anthony @ Fri 28th January 2011, 3:54pm)
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 28th January 2011, 3:50pm)
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If Google decided tomorrow to copy Wikipedia's content to a new site called "Sergeypedia.com", and Google elected to remove Wikipedia domains from search results and to replace them with Sergeypedia links, I guarantee you and would be willing to bet you $100 (while there would be some significant outcry from the tech press about "Google being evil") that Sergeypedia (for at least a month, even if left absolutely unimproved by any Google gimmicks) would be a Top 20 website and Wikipedia would fall out of the Top 20.
The problem with that argument is that Google wouldn't do that. And in fact, people use Google
because it wouldn't do that.
Says who?
I think you answered that yourself: "QUOTE(anthony @ Fri 28th January 2011, 3:54pm)"
QUOTE(dogbiscuit @ Fri 28th January 2011, 4:12pm)
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Google [snip reasonable and irrelevant points] would also come up with a plausible "do no evil" reason why the substitution was appropriate (like all the content is the same, but is no longer managed by teenage male IT geeks with too much time and too little ambition, but instead by experts of all genders).
That's ridiculous.
QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 28th January 2011, 4:10pm)
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QUOTE(anthony @ Fri 28th January 2011, 10:54am)
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The problem with that argument is that Google wouldn't do that. And in fact, people use Google because it wouldn't do that.
Radek specifically said, "even with all the google support and all that".
I found that to be a false claim.
Touche. I should have known better than to argue with you about marketing (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/smile.gif).
Still, I contend that,
in the short term (months, maybe even a year or two), the trademark is
pretty much everything the single biggest asset, in any
realistic (i.e., non-dogbiscuit) scenario.
(I changed my mind from "pretty much everything" to "the single biggest asset", because the technical expertise is also a big factor. Even though all the source code (that I know of) is open, there's still quite a lot of expertise in how to run a top-20 website using Mediawiki and MySQL, which would be quite expensive to replicate in a short amount of time.)
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