My view is Google was not a better search engine but the guys talked a much superior story about relevance, at a point in the search narrative when it really, really mattered to show relevance.

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Their view: Ticketmaster played the role of a search engine before there were search engines.

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Matterport's cloud engine changes the way we understand and view spaces by allowing users to post and share them with the world.

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Currently UK publishers take a fairly relaxed view to the actions of the monopolistic US search engine giant because they love all the extra readers Google brings them.

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In a recent note to clients, Stephen Roach, an economist with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, reiterated his view that China, not Japan, will be the engine of Asian growth in this century.

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From a technology coverage point of view, as opposed to politics coverage, Yahoo could bring this type of data analysis and prediction engine to other content verticals.

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