you're offered $500k a year to work on some cutting edge secret technology, something that improves the relevance of web search results by 50%. The company woul

you're offered $500k a year to work on some cutting edge secret technology, something that improves the relevance of web search results by 50%. The company would be crazy to not have a noncompete. That must explain why there have never been any innovative search engines from California, where non-competes are null and void.