What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea
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There has been talk of News Corp. threatening to leave the google index and Googles problems trying to index out of print books. But, all of these problems are related to the commercial status. If they were considered a non profit the majority of these problems they seem to be having would go away. The interesting thing is that Googles founders once believed that the site should be a non profit search. But there has been talks about this very idea possibly coming true. If Google were to take on its status as non profit search engine, it would basically make them unstoppable.To read the entire article, please follow the hyperlink to the ZDNet web-page.
