Search is kind of an investment dead zone. Even if you've come up with a completely paradigm-breaking method, getting money to develop the idea at scale would b

Search is kind of an investment dead zone. Even if you've come up with a completely paradigm-breaking method, getting money to develop the idea at scale would be tough since Google (and others) have so many patents that litigation risk would drive off funders. If you have a great idea and access to deep enough pockets to develop it, there's still the problem that much of the information people want to find are behind various walled gardens and not suitable for public search. Incrementally more helpful arrangement of the same publicly available data that Google already has, isn't worth the effort of challenging the behemoth