I think this is a great idea but measures would have to be taken to prevent Hollywood accounting from erasing payouts to consumers. Establishing a value for ea

I think this is a great idea but measures would have to be taken to prevent Hollywood accounting from erasing payouts to consumers. Establishing a value for each data point gathered and an ongoing payout from derived data (e.g. training a machine learning model using your search habits should not mean you get nothing if the original data isn't kept) is crucial. Also, keeping track of all of those payouts would also be a huge burden for even Google, I can't imagine for a small startup. This also needs to be considered so that it doesn't stifle innovation. Some napkin math: assuming 1 billion MAU for Google Search and around $30B in revenue for Q1 2020, that's $30 in revenue per MAU per quarter or around $120/year. This would be before costs of course and represents the ceiling of what they would be able to pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/alphabet-googl-earnings-q1-2020.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/alphabet-googl-earnings-q1-2... https://techjury.net/blog/google-search-statistics/ https://techjury.net/blog/google-search-statistics/