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> The EU would use public funding to build some sort of Google alternative and it would take ages, would be mediocre and most money would go to waste. Instead o
by wolvesechoes 1y ago
> The EU would use public funding to build some sort of Google alternative and it would take ages, would be mediocre and most money would go to waste. Instead of incentivising entrepreneurship, which is what they probably should do.
Something like web search is basicallly part of a modern digital infrastructure. We don't want entrepreneurship in water or energy supply, I don't think we should rely on it in web search, because it will inevitably end up chasing profits over everything else.
- r14c 1y agoMarkets are good at driving cost down via competition, but once you reach a monopoly steady state there's not much left to optimize. I think a search utility would work just fine. The main barrier to entry is the huge storage and processing resources that are needed to make a good index. Google contains all the information out how to scale like that too.
- 1718627440 1y agoThe cost for operating web search could be down dramatically, when the websites were registering instead. This would solve the scraping issue and also put websites in how their operators actually care about.