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> Do we need another search engine ?

A valid question even when Google came to the fore. We had Yahoo, HotBot, Altavista, and then Google came along. And while the others were search engines, Google was superior.

Will people switch to a better internet search engine ?

The answer is always yes.

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It needs to be marginally better. Slighly is not good enough to gain momentum.

Some would say at least 10X better. Google won because pagerank crushed keyword searches, and gmail Gabe 20X the free inbox that hotmail gave.

yea perhaps. This is case where it's simple(r) to measure, but that's not always the case.

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