by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:12PM (#58931206)
"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."
We all receive public benefits. That's neither here nor there. That doesn't give the state a claim on our property, beyond that encoded in the tax laws.
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.
Happened in germany. Telekom wasn't a company before ca. 1990 all the cables were owned by the country. But the government created Telekom and sold all their cables to them. A few years later when other cable companies started to emerge, courts ordered Telekom to share their cables for a minimal fee, because these other cable companies said they coudn't compete otherwise.
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 whic
I for one value my privacy, but moreover, like getting generic results better than "personalized" ones. The former are actually more useful to me than the latter.
The thing can be a tad flaky so be prepared to switch to some other search engine occasionally. And while their results are very good, they're still no match for google's, apparently on the same index. They cut off a bit sooner so for deep digging you need to switch search engines again. But for plenty of daily use they're just fine, really.
What is this? A subtle infomercial? What about duckduckgo and others?
As to competition, well, make a search engine that doesn't suck. Bing, e.g. Still insists on giving top promoted irrelevant results so ionly use it as part of a search aggregation engine, e.g. DuckDuckGo
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers*
from it."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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, Funny)
Socialism, Google! Get with the program. Your effort is our free gain! What is wrong with you?
Re: I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:0)
In what way do you think Google operates without receiving public benefits?
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We all receive public benefits. That's neither here nor there. That doesn't give the state a claim on our property, beyond that encoded in the tax laws.
Re: I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:0)
Wow. Try getting up off your knees for a change and get that stinky Jew schmeckle out of your mouth.
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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.
Happened in germany. Telekom wasn't a company before ca. 1990 all the cables were owned by the country. But the government created Telekom and sold all their cables to them. A few years later when other cable companies started to emerge, courts ordered Telekom to share their cables for a minimal fee, because these other cable companies said they coudn't compete otherwise.
Re: I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:0)
Assfuck
Re: I'm Google and this is your brain on drugs (Score:0)
As evil as google is, robbing them doesn't make it right.
I would totally love to see their monopoly broken, I would be happy if they get broken up. But to take away their assets arbitrarily is wrong.
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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 whic
Used to be called ixquick (Score:0)
I for one value my privacy, but moreover, like getting generic results better than "personalized" ones. The former are actually more useful to me than the latter.
The thing can be a tad flaky so be prepared to switch to some other search engine occasionally. And while their results are very good, they're still no match for google's, apparently on the same index. They cut off a bit sooner so for deep digging you need to switch search engines again. But for plenty of daily use they're just fine, really.
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...or Ecosia:
https://www.ecosia.org/ [ecosia.org]
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What is this? A subtle infomercial? What about duckduckgo and others?
As to competition, well, make a search engine that doesn't suck. Bing, e.g. Still insists on giving top promoted irrelevant results so ionly use it as part of a search aggregation engine, e.g. DuckDuckGo