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Does this create an opportunity for 'number one' sites to band together and create a competing search engine? Would it be possible to fund a search engine star
by toohotatopic 7y ago
Does this create an opportunity for 'number one' sites to band together and create a competing search engine?
Would it be possible to fund a search engine startup by selling shares to all of those sites who now have to pay to stay at the top? In the long run, it should be cheaper to fund a competitor.
- lonelappde 7y agoI'm not sure regulators would look kindly on an pan-industry cartel explicitly designed to suppress smaller business from appearing in the marketplace. That's a pure antitrust play.
- Swalden123 7y agoThat sounds like Google to me.
- jackcosgrove 7y agoHERE is an industry consortium created to offer an alternative map service.
- JohnFen 7y agoI'm helping this effort along -- all of my sites specifically exclude Google's spiders, but allow those of other search engines.