Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by epigen on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @04:39PM (#27440467)

The cost-per-search is negligible even if every user had to pay. Instead of running the search the government could implement policies that make search advertising illegal and thus forcing another business model.

Pay-per-search would be cheap enough for municipalities to negotiate subscriptions for their entire broadband network as a part of broadband service.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by amadeuspagel on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:07PM (#27442256)

What an awful idea. A municipality would probably only have one search engine, search engines would serve municipalities which could pressure them to suppress stories, there'd probably be one search engine targeting republican municipalities and one targeting democrat ones, there'd be pressure groups trying to get municipalities to use another search engine that doesn't show results they don't like and it would be incredibly hard to start a new search engine.

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Re:Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a... by qxga on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:19PM (#27440987)

> Pay-per-search

Yeah, the last thing I would want my search history to be tied to is my payment information.

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