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I'll start: I would be willing to pay a small amount monthly for a search engine that was restricted to independent websites and news sources that don't have a

• freediver 7y ago
  What is a small amount monthly? Can you share a use case? Would you consciously go to that engine instead of Google for your daily routine?
  • rossdavidh 7y ago
    Let's say something like $5. I would probably check it at least daily. It would also be something I would look for when trying to find, say "recipe for spinach quiche", where there will be a lot of ad-tastic and very spammy content. Or, "things to do in Prague", when I do not want Google to start telling the world to spam me about Prague. I just want to see websites of people who went, themselves, to Prague, and want to tell the internet about it. Or "how to build a bench", when I just want to see indie blogs where Joe Carpenter tells how he made a simple bench, without getting ads. Perhaps also date-sensitive, so that anything indexed in the last week with the word "Italy" would show up, or "monarch butterflies", or "garden". But not in social networks (esp. not Pinterest), and not in websites with a bunch of ads.
    • freediver 7y ago
      Check if you like this as a concept first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209358 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209358