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You are free to create google analog. No one is prohibiting you. And with the way google results have gone downhill in the last 5 years - it is way past due.

The page rank is not the only possible strategy for effective search.




>You are free to create google analog. No one is prohibiting you

Google's massive patent arsenal disagrees with you. I imagine many common and obvious search methods have a government granted monopoly due to our corrupt patent system. Even Microsoft, with a massive patent arsenal itself, couldnt work out deals with Google and gets sued now and again:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2240889/microsoft-g...

How can Joe Startup compete in this space?


Ignore the lawyers. Break the law. Opensource the search code. Create a chain of companies and burn each one when hit with a lawsuit. Don't try to win lawsuits - just use every possible tactic to delay them and so on. Create the company in a country where there are no software patents.


Google hasn't used PageRank exclusively for years. Nowadays it's just one factor among many.




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