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COPYRIGHT 2006 Ziff Davis Media Inc.
Exalead, a search engine company based in France, says it has found its inner Google. So watch out, says co-founder Francois Bourdoncle.
With what Exalead's got going for it, Bourdoncle believes it'll take his firm just three years to be among the top five Internet search providers worldwide.
Bourdoncle's sentiment is indicative of the times in the search industry. There is a growing feeling that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, the world's top three search engines, are now more vulnerable than ever before to challengers.
It's a rare bit of bravado. After all, 97 percent of the billons of Internet search queries each week continue to go through just five providers. Three of them, Google, Yahoo and MSN, host eight of each 10 queries.
In fact, search market leader Google's brand is so entrenched in the public conscious, "google" has become a verb meaning to search the...
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