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I doubt this is feasible, there's a lot that goes into the index which determines which kinds of queries you can even run.

• pydry 3y ago
  Why? As a supplier of an API to search engine "customers" their entire job would just be to service that demand and provide new query options. The intra-engine competition, meanwhile, would drive up results quality. Search engines would rise and fall on their own merits rather than on the basis that theyve got access to the biggest index.
  • chx 3y ago
    But part of the competition is the index quality. For example, it's a lot easier to provide a keyword index than a phrase index. There's code search which is almost orthogonal to what ordinary search wants separators wise etc
    • pydry 3y ago
      I dont doubt that. The point of regulating it as a utility isnt that theres nothing to compete over but that the barrier to entry is so high that you can't simply rely on the market to provide competition.