Once the lower service (enshitification) was accepted as the norm, one could guess the higher costs to extract data from various sites these last few years, it

Once the lower service (enshitification) was accepted as the norm, one could guess the higher costs to extract data from various sites these last few years, it's not that worthwhile for newcomers to spend up big without being able to offer up anything much better than what the main search engine google can offer, given a good percentage of searches are easy searches where the first page of results is probably going to satisfy the user query.