Dear Researchers,

I have a business idea (new service) for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc...
This will generate huge new stream in revenues 

My question is what would be the right way to approach those companies
and who to contact.

Approach ? how to sell idea without idea being stolen, from what I
checked unfortunately it cannot be patented. What is the practice in
such cases (examples appreciated). I would also need ideas/ thoughts
how to price something like this, since its hard to estimate effect of
this invention, I would like to get ideas for several scenarios
(again, examples from past please)
I would also need a list of reliable experienced law firms in US and
Europe that can assist in such case and represented such cases in the
past (5-10 firms to choose from)

Contact ? I would also need names and email addresses of people that I
can contact at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay and AOL (email like
ideasATgoogle.com not what I?m looking for, what I need is contacts of
a high ranking officers) Most of those companies offer online
suggestion/ idea collection and contact service, In order to spare
time and ensure proper treatment I would need personal contacts. I
understand that they receive thousands if not millions ideas,
proposals and its taking time to review them, however I would like to
try with direct contact. From a little market research that I did, 6-7
people out of 10 would use such service on regular bases. I believe it
might be the next big hit

Thanks in advance
Good answer will be well tipped; answer that will seriously help will
be tipped even better

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 15 Apr 2006 01:14 PDT

I can tell you how to proceed, based on my research of people with
ideas that could improve a feature in established sites. However, this
includes much more work than just contacting these firms, and I am not
so sure that you'd like the answer, therefore. Should I proceed?

Regarding the contact info that you seek, even if you obtain such
contact information, the fact is that high-ranking officers of huge
companies typically do not read their own mail. Mail is screened by
their staff. Unsolicited business suggestions from unknown persons are
not likely to be passed along to a high-ranking officer in a large
business.

Thanks for your comment, i'm aware of email screening system, however
i'm willing to give it a try. The reason why i turned to google
answers, is that i have a great idea, but dont know how to proceed...