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Five Years Later, Who Rules Google? [The Loser Is You]

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December 20, 2007

Five Years Later, Who Rules Google? [The Loser Is You]
jimmywales.jpgFive years ago, blogger Rogers Cadenhead recalls, blogging sorta-evangelist and RSS king Dave Winer made a long bet with Martin Nisenholtz, the senior VP for digital operations at the New York Times. The proposition was this: “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.” The best part is, their arguments at the time both pro and con are pretty hilarious—because they’ve…

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