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The cost-per-search is negligible even if every user had to pay. Instead of running the search the government could implement policies that make search advertis
by epigen 5y ago
The cost-per-search is negligible even if every user had to pay. Instead of running the search the government could implement policies that make search advertising illegal and thus forcing another business model.
Pay-per-search would be cheap enough for municipalities to negotiate subscriptions for their entire broadband network as a part of broadband service.
- qxga 5y ago> Pay-per-search Yeah, the last thing I would want my search history to be tied to is my payment information.
- amadeuspagel 5y agoWhat an awful idea. A municipality would probably only have one search engine, search engines would serve municipalities which could pressure them to suppress stories, there'd probably be one search engine targeting republican municipalities and one targeting democrat ones, there'd be pressure groups trying to get municipalities to use another search engine that doesn't show results they don't like and it would be incredibly hard to start a new search engine.