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Markets 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 wo
by r14c 1y ago
Markets 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.