Will search engines give their users a piece of the profits?


	Will search engines give their users a piece of the profits?

egoldstein

12-10-2005 4:25 PM

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google, microsoft, yahoo, search, advertising, revenue

egoldstein says:

They should! I agree with Nicholas Carr that they will. Read the full blog post to check his reasoning.

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