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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by abraae on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:28PM (#20446794)
Any search engine that was unavailable for 50% of the time would soon have 0% of the market, not 50%.
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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by devit on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:05PM (#20446936)
This can be solved, in the odd-days example, by making either the second most popular or all other search engines operate only on the even days (as well as making the restriction apply to the most popular engine instead of Google in particular).

This has other drawbacks of course.

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