>I get what you're saying, but why hasn't a better search engine emerged yet? Although Moore's law brought down the price of hardware and information processin

>I get what you're saying, but why hasn't a better search engine emerged yet? Although Moore's law brought down the price of hardware and information processing dramatically in the last 20 years, it is still fairly expensive to crawl the Web, index it and rank it. Hardware cost + engineering cost can escalate pretty quickly, unless you decide to have smaller index than major search engines but then users will complain that search results are not good enough.