And she was speaking alongside Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who said that the Israelis are going to continue their two-tracked approach, talking to the pragmatic leaders - meaning Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian authority president - but dealing with Hamas, which she said is like a small army now.

NPR: Rice Meets Israelis, Palestinians

But does that pragmatic approach leave Google vulnerable to an innovative start-up willing to risk its fate on building meaning-based search from scratch?

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