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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by njarboe on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:31AM (#15732425)
I would pay at least $10 a month for a good search engine, like google when it first started. Maybe that web is gone, so it could not work, but in the old days one could copy almost any error message and get a great explanation of the problem. I bet at least a million other people would too. Maybe $10 million a month in revenue could support a user focused search engine?
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by Noos on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:43AM (#15732780)
Whenever anyone talks about business ideas, there's always some person that says "Oh, well I will pay so much for it!" and when you implement...they don't pay. That's probably been the downfall of many a web service when they realize its cheap for a person to say that they might pay so much for something, but hard for them to open their purse when it's time.
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by njarboe on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:52AM (#15734595)
I agree that the vast majority won't pay. 99% of people won't pay for news. 1% will pay for the WSJ or New York times. 0.001% pay $24,000 per year for a Bloomberg terminal. I think search engines could differentiate similarly. Maybe they have and I just don't know about the good paid options.
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by flamedoge on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:50AM (#15732802)
What's key to selling? Is it to pander to customer's wants? or make something so good to make it practically a need that money means little and customers will gamble?
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by perfmode on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:24AM (#15732574)
Google search earns over $138,000,000 per day. Best of luck outgunning them.
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by kelnos on Sunday November 19, 2017 @04:29AM (#15733060)
You don't need to beat Google on revenue. You just need to make enough to cover costs and retain enough talent to keep improving your search engine.
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by justboxing on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:27AM (#15732583)
Source?
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by infogulch on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:45AM (#15732629)
Google made $79B from ad revenue in 2016[1]. $79B in a year / 365 days per year = 218M per day. So GP underestimated by quite a bit.

Or put another way: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+ad+revenue

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven...

(Brought to you by Google Search: so ubiquitous it has become it's own meme.)

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by lasc4r on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:15AM (#15732703)
is "making per day" profit or revenue?
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by gcatalfamo on Sunday November 19, 2017 @02:55AM (#15732820)
Revenue
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by lasc4r on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:02AM (#15745677)
If I had a hot dog cart and sold $500 worth of hot dogs, but the hot dogs cost me $100, to me, that's not making $500.
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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by junkscience2017 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:35AM (#15732442)
that's hardly "beating" Google, or even DDG for that matter
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