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> Who pays for search who says that 'search' has to be a consolidated system that needs to be paid for?

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  It's a hell of a lot more convenient as one. Not really thrilled about going back to the days of a fragmented web where webcrawler would give you some results, lycos some others, altavista yet a third batch...
  • gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
    Sounds great. These days we only get the Google or the MS batches of results.
    • shadowgovt 6y ago
      ... which cover five nines of use case. A fragmented ecosystem would give us three to five sites to search that still cover only five nines of the use case, based on past experience.
      • withinboredom 6y ago
        Oh but the things you discover! I didn’t learn BASIC by searching for it. I learned it because someone stuck a manual in the young adult section at my library by accident and I was curious...