How will your system compensate people who write useful code if that code isn't allowed to be an excludable market product?

So only the first company to make a search engine should be able to sell a search engine? I don't see how this stance makes any sense.

No, selling a search engine never made any sense to begin with. Services should be publicly funded and freely accessible. As a bonus we wouldn't have to put up with spam on every site on the internet.

Kagi sells a search engine and it's hugely popular. They're supported by the people who buy the software, not by ads. Not selling the software is exactly what leads to the spam you hate. In similar vein, would you say all software should be given away freely?

I'm saying services should be publicly funded and freely accessible.

I assume op means you should be compensated through a method other than pretending software is scarce and trying to assign value to it through a system that relies on equivocating scarcity with value.