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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by marginalia_nu on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:50PM (#32918276)
Arguably the biggest most unsolved problem in search is how to make a profit (or even break even). This can be approached in two ways: You can either try to find some way of making search more profitable, or you can find a way to make search cheaper. I think the latter is a lot more plausible than the former.

A shoestring budget keeps the costs down by design and by necessity. A large budget virtually ensures the search engine becomes so expensive to operate it will never break even.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by qualudeheart on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:30AM (#32921463)
Why not offer a paid tier? Seems to work for Kagi. Information elites will soon flock to paid search engines, which won’t be much more expensive than a streaming subscription. I pay for Netflix and am willing to pay for a search engine that offers as good a search service as the video streaming offered by Netflix.
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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by mellavora on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:06AM (#32922449)
> Arguably the biggest most unsolved problem in search is how to make a profit

And the EU just solved that problem.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by marginalia_nu on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @10:43AM (#32925880)
Did they though?
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