> I would be extremely surprised if search simply disappeared rather than move to a paid model. Sure, but that would be available to the ones that can profit f

> I would be extremely surprised if search simply disappeared rather than move to a paid model. Sure, but that would be available to the ones that can profit from it directly, not the mass population that would have an hard time seeing value created from it. Instead they would expect word of mouth to be sufficent, and in a way they wouldn't be wrong in that world because in that world everything would depends from it. They just wouldn't have the luxury of having all theses others experience that depends on ads to exist, simply because ads wouldn't be there to allow them to exist.