So to the question of does the world need another search engine? I mean I think the fact that so many people think yes enough to both create new search engines

So to the question of does the world need another search engine? I mean I think the fact that so many people think yes enough to both create new search engines and in some cases fund them, especially when google for a lot of people myself included really doesn't produce useful results outside of basic questions, is yes. It also makes more sense if users aren't the product and you can have a business doing 10's-100's of millions in revenue based on serving some niche without having the be exploitative via subscription or some b2b offering you make. Google is so big it's almost a certainly they are more than suboptimal at a profitable enough niche. DuckDuckGo proved that with it's focus on privacy which is most certainly a niche and the 100million in revenue they do. Personally I think there's a lot of B2B opportunity for a lot of this information where the search can be a multi billion dollar business just not on the backs of consumers.