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I sometimes do wonder what would have happened if they'd decided to charge for their search engine. Of course, putting it behind a paywall would have been a fa
by api 13y ago
I sometimes do wonder what would have happened if they'd decided to charge for their search engine.
Of course, putting it behind a paywall would have been a failure. But they could have possibly done a freemium model, offering better and more detailed search capability for a small monthly or yearly fee.
- freshhawk 13y agoIf they hadn't done advertising then many of the non-search products (Gmail especially) could have been behind a paywall. The brand recognition from search would build the other businesses for them. All the analytics, google alerts, etc would have been non-free products as well. It just would have made them much, much, much less money. But god damn that search engine would be amazing by now.