I see opportunity for niche search engines, there are several areas that google does not do well in on purpose it seems. I think the truly hard part is that so

I see opportunity for niche search engines, there are several areas that google does not do well in on purpose it seems. I think the truly hard part is that so many people accept whatever default is already there. If they get an android phone - they use the search box there. If they are using chrome browser, whatever input box is there on the first screen is obviously the url bar and use that (you and I may know the difference, the average user doesn't care, it's one less click to just type 'google' into the url box in the center of the page, of fbook or whatever, then google brings up the url you were going to (not searching). This is why I think there is much less hype about competing in this space. Unless there is a thing forcing companies to put other browsers and search boxes on phones, tablets and chromebooks like the microsoft IE debacle so long ago.. then trying to be the next google is impossible, even if you had better results, better tech, etc. Regardless of that, I think it's quite possible to make much better niche search engines and get them used. If ten micro engines could make 1% of googles revenues each, that would be a decent amount of money in my neck of the woods. I'd like to see other people post more sources about search tech in general, several searches last year only brought a few info bits on what it may cost to create an index of the net - someone posted some numbers using servers bought off ebay and a rack at hurricane I think - had some numbers for the cost of servers to pull a new index every month or so? Certainly the tech and costs have changed since that was published, but not much I've seen. I'm pretty excited at this project posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16976941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16976941 ( Show HN: A search engine that doesn't track you, where users vote for results (github.com) ) I am hoping to get some people together to make a less persnickety and fussbudgety search option for people who don't want to be babysit with censoring kids gloves when looking for fun things. If anyone wants to make a couple adults only engines, or ones that are more fun, let me know. Average people talk in slang and cut up about less high brow things, the big G gives rank to the college papers and deranks for so many things, it's on the road to being the next yellow pages and sciences journal, but not the place to go when you want fun things anymore.