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The main barrier to enter the search market is not tech, it's money: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-one-click-and-27-billion-us-dol
by pythux 6y ago
The main barrier to enter the search market is not tech, it's money: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-one-click-and-27-billion-us-dollars-away.html https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-22/google-competition-is-just-...
And of course there are lots of other issues. For example the Web is very hostile when you are not Google Bot (i.e. there are a lot of big sites that will forbid you from crawling their content, unless you are Google, or Bing).
- brundolf 6y agoThe money mentioned in that article is about being the default search engine, not being a functional one. Basically the question I'm asking is why DDG has to outsource to Bing. > there are a lot of big sites that will forbid you from crawling their content, unless you are Google, or Bing If you're talking about robots.txt, that's just a suggestion. It doesn't hold any actual preventative power.
- edoceo 6y agoIP blocking and rate limiting for clients outside the blessed range operated by G