Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search
by bananapub on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:47PM
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> I just can't see even the best search engine either costing that much to run or
why is that hard to imagine? the fixed costs of a search engine are enormous, and Google has 1) coming on three decades of investment in sunk costs and 2) billions of users now.
> providing that much value.
that's obviously a personal judgement you have to make for yourself.
having a quite good search engine that is happy to just take my money in exchange for a useful service is definitely worth three coffees/month to me.
why is that hard to imagine? the fixed costs of a search engine are enormous, and Google has 1) coming on three decades of investment in sunk costs and 2) billions of users now.
> providing that much value.
that's obviously a personal judgement you have to make for yourself.
having a quite good search engine that is happy to just take my money in exchange for a useful service is definitely worth three coffees/month to me.