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No Stopping Google's Domination

So Jason is predicting that “Google will have 90% search market share in the US one year from now“, and while people may cringe at that thought, I don’t think it’s a completely unlikely scenario.

Topix Co-Founder Taking On Google

Rich Skrenta has a new startup called Blekko in the works, and plans to make a run at the search engine world with it.

Skrenta Cedes CEO Role At Topix

VP of marketing Chris Tolles will take Rich Skrenta's CEO job running news-aggregating site Topix, with Skrenta taking over management of the Topix board of directors.

Topix Reinvented As Hyperlocal News Portal

The news aggregating site at Topix.net has a new complementary domain at Topix.com, and a renewed focus on the local audience that CEO Rich Skrenta thinks can be a difference maker for the site. Oh, and just call them Topix.

Beating The Unbeatable Google

Topix CEO Rich Skrenta thinks someone out there can compete with Google, and he offered suggestions on how that might happen (hint: think vertically). 

Topix Worries About Domain Change

After paying $1 million to purchase the rights to the Topix.com domain, Topix.net CEO Rich Skrenta now has to deal with a couple of daily realities in the search world: changing domains could cause a dropoff in search engine-driven traffic, and Google isn't exactly Nordstrom or L.L. Bean when it comes to customer service.