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$1000? Are you kidding me? Some companies spend that much on AdWords in one DAY.

And not to mention the lawsuits. $16 billion dollars of revenue can pay for a LOT of lawyers.

"Would the top 1k most visited sites take a cool $1mm each, plus a committment from MicroSoft or Yahoo to drive traffic through their search engines to more than make up for the lost Google Traffic. After all, once consumers realized that Google no longer had valid search results for the top 25k searchs, that traffic would most likely go to MicroSoft and Yahoo."

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