"I'm Google. I expend LOTS of resources at MY cost to index the web. You want me to what? Share my work for free? Are you high? I'll share my index when all cable companies and telcos in the US share their wires with anybody that wants to start a cable company or telco."
Would sharing it even be much of a cost saving for other companies? Either they would have to pay for a massive data feed and then build their own high performance distributed search system, or they would have to pay to use Google's.
Collecting the data isn't the hard part, it's building the search engine that is.
Anyway, search is a saturated, mature market. Even Bing mostly gives you the right answer most of the time, there just isn't that much more anyone can do beyond niche search engines like Shodan which already exist without Google's help.
Startpage (Score:5, Informative)
https://www.startpage.com [startpage.com]
Re: Startpage (Score:0)
You get Internet in your cave?
I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:2)
Would sharing it even be much of a cost saving for other companies? Either they would have to pay for a massive data feed and then build their own high performance distributed search system, or they would have to pay to use Google's.
Collecting the data isn't the hard part, it's building the search engine that is.
Anyway, search is a saturated, mature market. Even Bing mostly gives you the right answer most of the time, there just isn't that much more anyone can do beyond niche search engines like Shodan which already exist without Google's help.