> The dumb thing is there are probably an entire two or three teams worth of ex-googlers that could write a new google out there. It doesn't take Googlers. Bu

> The dumb thing is there are probably an entire two or three teams worth of ex-googlers that could write a new google out there. It doesn't take Googlers. But what it does take nowadays is money. And that's why "open source" doesn't fix this problem. Writing the software to make a better search engine is the easy part--runnaroo showed this. Keeping the thing running without revenue as it sucks down more and more resource is the hard part--runnaroo also showed this. No VC is going to step into the space because they want to be "teh Google". They don't want to be profitable--they want to be a unicorn.