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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Firmwarrior on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @09:43PM (#30355768)
When are you going to have a VC fork over $10,000,000 and start your empire??

I use your crazy search engine all the time, and it's fucking great. Last time I checked, though, you're getting like $30 a month from Patreon and that's it, haha.

You're too much of a well-adjusted normal human being, that's your problem. You need that touch of Zuckerwellian sociopathy to get to the next level

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by marginalia_nu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:14AM (#30358205)
Well I'm actually up to a $100 now, which is about twice my burn rate, so you might as well say I've broken even already. To the moon, baby.

To be serious, it's notoriously difficult to actually make a profit off search. I guess we'll see if Kagi will be able to eke out a market for itself, that may change things. Right now, I think investors will look at Bing and go "yikes".

Doesn't go to say I couldn't build a fantastic search engine with more resources than my current shoestring budget, the hard question remains: Why isn't this just a waste of money? Would take one hell of a sales pitch to gloss over that concern.

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