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"it's amazing when the business people take over how rational they get focused on short term revenue and lose the long term vision"- on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank for $350k (or $1.6m, not entirely clear).

I think this is a problem at a number of established tech companies as the management layer evolves.



> on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank

The big money was in portals not search during those days. If I am not mistaken even the Google founders initially had no idea how to monetize it.




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