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Make this an option, escrow if requested.

Obvious, but necessary. The most obvious of ideas are often the hardest to articulate.

Google seems destined to become the world's most valuable corporation[1]. Who wants to be Pepsi?

To compete with Google, copy Google's game plan. Focus on search. Evolve to AI.[2] (An AI is something that can give me a useful answer to my question.) Organize the world's information. Everything else Google does is cover fire.[3]

What I'm really asking is, why can't I name a single pure play search company other than Google?

[1] Besides oil.

[2] http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html

[3] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html